People tend to write with consistent styles. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you should know how do I normally write my articles and the usual grammatical mistakes that I make. Even if I were to buy unique articles and post them under my name, some of you could detect that the article is definitely not written by me. Even if there were bloggers that writes very closely to my style, the level of technicality in research is definitely different.
Other than that, the words that are used in an article can disclose identifying features such as determining an author’s gender. There is an algorithm developed by Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology, that can predict the gender of an author. The analysis is based on how many feminine and masculine keywords being used to determine if the author is female or male. Hacker Factor, the same company the sponsored FotoForensic’s website has implemented the algorithm and named the service Gender Guesser so that we can all use it for free to estimate the gender of an author.
All you need to do is paste a writing style sample that contains at least 300 words into the blue box and providing more words would more accurate. Click the Analyze button and the verdict is displayed instantly, thanks to Javascript. You may have noticed that there is two genres which is Informal and Formal. Formal writing includes fiction and non-fiction stories, articles, and news reports. Informal writing includes blog and chat-room text. (Email can be formal, informal, or some combination.) You should view the results based on the appropriate type of writing.
So far I’ve analyzed 5 of my latest articles on Gender Guesser and all 5 came up as MALE. Interestingly, when I tried analyzing one of my female friend’s blog (mistyeiz.com), most of it came up as FEMALE. While Gender Guesser may seem to have given quite an accurate result, but it is still not 100% and the results should be not interpreted as “fact”.