Re: This is interesting...

["Shira Abel" <shira -dot- abel -at- gmail -dot- com>]

*Words:* 72
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

*Female Score:* 39
*Male Score:* 106

*The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is:* male!
I'm not male. I promise you I'm not.

my text was a blog entry about ferbering my son:

Right now B2 is going nuts. He has gotten too used to sleeping in our bed.
the Hubby has done his best to try and break him of the habit, but he isn't
so strong on consistency, so now it's my turn. the problem is, our
inconsistency has made the situation much much worse. he's been crying for
over 20 minutes now. (first 2, then 5, then 10, now we're waiting for 15)

(in case you are wondering it took 2 days and now he sleeps without tears.)

-s

On 6/7/07, Van Boening, Tammy <tammy -dot- vanboening -at- fiserv -dot- com> wrote:
>
> LOL and my male outnumbered my female the other way!
>
> TVB
>
>
> Tammy L. Van Boening
> Senior Technical Writer
> Fiserv Insurance Solutions
> Property and Casualty Division
> 303-729-7733
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> Keep smiling, at least until you get your own way.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Gene Kim-Eng
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 4:32 PM
> To: Evelyn Lee Barney; Emily Berk; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: This is interesting...
>
> I tried four different writing samples and for each of them my "female"
> outscored my "male" by about 2:1.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Evelyn Lee Barney" <evbarney -at- comcast -dot- net>
> > Well HMPH!
> >
> > What does this say about how we are taught to write, and by whom?
> > About who decides what style is "best?"  Or, what does it say about
> > the test?  I admit to being a bit of a hoyden, but I am decidedly
> female.  I took this test three times.  The first piece I plugged in was
> an essay on the uses of sound and silence in the classic Frtiz Lang
> film, "M" -- my score was overwhelmingly male.
> > Next, I tried part of an article I'm working on about the use of
> > electronic portfolios for professional writers.  Again, overwhelmingly
>
> > MALE!  Last, I found the piece I thought was perhaps the most
> > "feminine" of anything I've done in the past few months, based on the
> > subject matter, a defence of melodrama as an art form (a la Douglas
> Sirk).  Well, that one did come out female, by a mere 120 points.  The
> point spread on the other two was over 400 points.  Just as an FYI -
> each sample I used was between 550 - 620 words.
> >
> > Now I'm curious - have any of you played with this?  What were your
> results?
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