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Does your writing say you’re a man or a woman? Check out The Gender Genie, a free site which uses a simplified version of an algorithm developed by Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology, to predict the gender of an author. Insert about 500 words of your writing and the Genie predicts your gender, allegedly with high accuracy.

I submitted two recent articles and the first chapter of my book. Alas, the Genie thinks I’m male. The articles scored high on the male gender; the book came out male but the score was more balanced: 834/female and 892/male.

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