Newsvine sometimes turns up little gems of sites. Today, it provided for my delectation an online utility simply named The Gender Genie. What it does is something quite remarkable - it uses established algorithm to determine the gender of your writing. Of course, your mileage may vary, and it's far from perfect, but it detected my gender perfectly. I used a recent blog post of mine as the sample text to test - this one, in fact. My results came back as follows:

Words: 676
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 557
Male Score: 1044

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

How glad am I! There's also a PDF describing the algorithm behind the site on the results page (just submit some text to see it).

So go test yourself: hit up The Gender Genie and see what it says about you!

Technorati Tags: kerblam, gender genie, Moshe Koppel, Shlomo Argamon, cool things