Sunday, April 6, 2008

There is some strange research being done in the world.

So it's Sunday and it's the low season and I have nothing to do today but surf. I surfed this morning and before going back out this afternoon, I have been doing some virtual surfing. I checked out Julia's blog
http://www.julitasramblings.com
which lead me through her friend's live journal to find this: http://www.hackerfactor.com (click on gender guesser)
I can't figure out if I think it's interesting or just plain STUPID! It's this program where you can't enter text that you've authored and based on your word choices,etc. it will tell you if you are male or female or...get this...WEAK male or female which according to the gender guesser may indicate that you're European! ha! I entered several pieces of text that i've written and now I'm so confused as I could be a male, weak male, or a weak female. Note that not in any of the text that was analyzed was I considered as a female! In fact, according to the gender guesser I'm more likely to be a male and maybe, just maybe I'm a WEAK FEMALE! I'm sure Mike would not appreciate me writing this but I entered one of his blog entries and it said "weak male." Maybe he'll find the humor in it and flex his muscles.
By the way, somehow I'm just not computer savvy enough to get the links to appear properly. I don't get it. well, you can all cut and paste and who's reading this silly thing anyway, much less following the links?

1 comment:

hoolia goolia said...

I saw that gender thing on Jen's blog and I had a feeling it would drive me nuts if I tried it too!

*hugs from afar to get you through your boring afternoons*