Sounds about right.

That answers a lot.

Thank you.

informally, i'm 100% male.

formally, i'm a Weak Female.

my giant testicles & affection for cunnilingus are very confused right now.

When i plugged in my self-written obituary ( written for a class) i was a Male (informal) and female (formal). I then tested an article review and I was male in both formal and informal.

Oh, i am female.

When i plugged in my self-written obituary ( written for a class) i was a Male (informal) and female (formal). I then tested an article review and I was male in both formal and informal.

Oh, i am female.

I choose not to enter my writing into this thing.

Ernest Hemingway was actually a weak female. I knew it all along.

I got male and weak male

Well, that was boring - I'm a guy, and my writing scored "Male" across the board.

On the plus side, that means I finally have something in common with ECB.

With such a salacious headline a bit disappointing. But entertaining still.

weak male (informal) weak female (formal)

I got male and weak male

This is more evidence that male and female writing styles are still poorly defined, if they exist.

It says I'm actually Maureen Dowd, but it refused to tell me what gender.

Informal - Weak Female and Formal - Female.

I tried two samples about different topics, and they both scored the same.

The way they use the word "weak" isn't really how it's presented here, though. It's not saying you're a weak male personally, it's saying the gender of your writing has a weak correlation with maleness.

This Gender Guesser system is heavily based on the Gender Genie. In particular, the word lists and weights are reproduced from the Gender Genie. The Gender Guesser extends the interpretation of informal writing to work on blogs and chat-room messages, and combines formal writing styles (fiction, non-fiction, essays, news reports, etc.). It also looks for weak emphasis -- used to distinguish European English from American English. In general, if the difference between male and female weight values is not significant (a "weak" score), then the author could be European. This is because the weight matrix is biased for distinguishing genders in American English.

"In particular, men should not be offended if it says you write like a girl."

Bwahaha.

male and female styles can still hold up. We still use master and slave in the computer world.

I blabbed the following (to get a 300+ word sample) and it determined I am an informal male, and a formal weak male. HA! Wrong! I have a vag and breasts.

As I submit this text, I do so with the idea that I can be ambiguous about my gender. I find it a lark that such a computer-generated device could be capable of such a feat. How can a programmed group of ones and zeroes tell whether I have breasts or testicles?
Furthermore, it is intriguing that a 'device' like this is one's concept in the first place. What difference does it make if the author is male of female? And, should it matter?
The only other way I can submit sufficient text for this experiment is to continue typing and discuss topics that have no bearing on the experiment.
For starters, how about the presidential campaign? So much bitterness and conflict, so much detriment. However, it is likely of benefit to the McCain campaign, if one examines the strategies amid the camps. Just a thought - if Hillary Clinton were to sumbit a sample to this web device, would she be found to be male or female? What seems interesting is that the more this user submits, the more it does detect gender. It might be worth considering that entering words with a particular inflection one associates with a particular gender might influence this experiment. Moreover, such inflections could be entered here, vis a vis with a more authoritative tone. Also of note is how it determines the geographic or cultural background of the author. How does it determine this? Is it command of language? In addition, I will assert a certain fortitude in the written language of this text, as it seems logical that it would determine such traits are more characteristic of a particular gender.
In closing, as to provide an adequate sample, I might suggest (getting submissive here) that maybe, just maybe, it might guess my gender correctly. Please, pretty please.

you write like you have a penis madashell

And i'm either a weak little ball of estrogen or some limp wristed cheese eater who shaves his legs and wears bycicle shorts

Yeah, I took that a while back and was called a girl. It seems that one of the major classifying factors for it depends on whether you speak in decisive tones (apparently a male trait) or with some greater impression of subjectivity (apparently a female trait). For example, my use of "seems" at the beginning of that sentence? Girly.

I'm skeptical, but they apparently have found linguistic features that distinguish male and female writing with nontrivial accuracy.

Informally, I'm MALE (62.35%). Formally, I'm a Weak FEMALE - Weak emphasis could indicate European.

I think they mean Canadian.

Based on what I posted over the last day on SLOG ...

Interesting. But since I've been a published male writer in the US, Canada, France, Australia, and New Zealand, I don't really need an "analysis" to tell me what gender I write as.

I'll take this thing seriously when it distinguishes Calm Female from Hysterical Female

I'm female. I plugged in something I wrote for work and came out male. I even chose the most touch-feely thing I wrote and and it was strongly male.

I plugged in a piece of fiction I wrote, and it came out weak male, possibly European.

The work piece, I can understand. My industry is dominiated by men, and I've learned to adapt my writing accordingly. But the fiction? Not so much. If I read it not knowing who wrote it, I never would guess that it was a man.

Eh.

I guess it all depends on whose ox is being gored:

As a gay male, I submitted a biographical piece on a gay male written for a gay publication. It was analyzed male and male.

Alternatively, another bio piece (again gay, gay, gay as above), I was analyzed as formally weak male, and informally female.

So this suggests to me the level of butchness of my subjects rather than the level of butchness of me.

At no time in either article did the phrase "oh, you silly queen" appear.

Did I do something wrong? When I ran it, all it said was informal and formal Male. Nowhere was there a Weak or a European or anything like that. Are the percentages supposed to indicate those characteristics?

it told me I was a whore, slapped me, then burst into tears...

"Dan Savage is Female"

It doesn't detect gay?

I a very much a female, however, both of my percentages were 80% male. I entered my cover letter for jobs. I hope that this is a good sign...

I was irritated at some of the explanations:

*Many factors can impact the interpretation from any single person's writing. The content, knowledge of the material, age of the author, nationality, experience, occupation, and education level can all impact writing styles. For example, a woman who has spent 20 years working in a male-dominated field may write like her co-workers.
**So by that reasoning nuns and female golf pros write like men?

*Quotations, block quotes, and included text usually carries the gender from the initial author. Be sure to remove quoted text from any pasted content. Also, significant changes from a copy-editor can result in a different gender analysis. (A male editor may make a female author's news article appear MALE or as a Weak MALE.)
**Don't you have any examples of men being influenced by women to sound girlier?

I tried several pieces of writing -- straightforward blogging, fiction, and super touch-feely emotional prose. ALL MALE.

I am the butchest 4'11 blonde chick you'll ever meet. Must be all the short sentences, hyphens, and abrupt punctuation.

I just submitted Hillary Clinton's latest campaign speech to the magic machine. The verdict?

"Margaret Thatcher."

I did two different samples. Got female on the first, male on the next. If I talk about relationships, I'm a girl. If I talk about politics, I'm a boy. Right. Awesome.

@Gloria - I know, what about being offended if it says you write like a man?

@33 I know, if it told me I was male, I'd rip out its circuit board and beat it with the wiry end.

I, a woman, just uploaded an 800 word piece I wrote about wedding photography (can you pick a girlier topic?) and it gave me a verdict of "weak male."

I give the Gender Guesser a rating of "weak tool."