saving ink

I’d say this is interesting, but a little too black and white. It’s also not that accurate, at least not in my case, because when I took this test using my longer blog entries or some articles I’ve written for the newspaper, I was overwhelmingly classified as male. My vagina would tend to disagree with this verdict.

Update: because this is the kind of odd curiosity I have, I ran a wider sample of my writing through this test, this time chronologically, beginning with the first story I’ve written that got published (when I was 16) to college essays and stories, to more recent writing, both fiction and non-fiction. I used three samples, around 800 words each, for each time period. Here are the results:

High school writing:

Average Female Score: 1022.67 / 55.69%
Average Male Score: 813.67 / 44.31%

College writing:

Average Female Score: 2801.33 / 49.97%
Average Male Score: 2804.67 / 50.03%

Grad school writing:

Average Female Score: 1069.67 / 43.13%
Average Male Score: 1410.33 / 56.87%

Present day:

Average Female Score: 962 / 40.68%
Average Male Score: 1403 / 59.32%

Perhaps this is not so surprising, because as I’ve gotten older I’ve adapted a more academic writing style; I’ve also been writing almost exclusively non-fiction essays or newspaper articles, which is a little disheartening in itself. Perhaps when I have more time I’ll do an analysis of my blog entries from high school until today.