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Amazing that [to, to, on, my, to, on, be, on, to, to ... etc] can reveal so much. One of the linked articles ( http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/faculty/p
by conanite 16y ago
Amazing that [to, to, on, my, to, on, be, on, to, to ... etc] can reveal so much. One of the linked articles ( http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/faculty/pennebaker/reprints/Chung&JWP.pdf http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/faculty/pennebaker/r... ) describes how the relative frequency of the use of "I" in communication is a powerful indicator of status (less "I" => higher status).
- patio11 16y agoStop word distributions are also sufficient for identifying gender in most English corpora with about 80% accuracy -- and you don't need much text, either. [Edit to add linky: http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~koppel/papers/male-female-text-final.pdf http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~koppel/papers/male-female-text-final.... ]
- conanite 16y agoI wonder would James Chartrand have been found out ... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=994284 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=994284 [Why James Chartrand Wears Women’s Underpants]
- patio11 16y agoI put her four posts written right before the "reveal" post through the first gender guesser I found on Google, and they all came out female. That proves essentially nothing, granted, but this has been studied fairly extensively. If you want to do twenty minutes of work with automation you can grab everything she's ever posted on CopyBlogger and run it through your classifier of choice. Then, heck, run the guys on CopyBlogger against it and see if you peg them right, too. Natural language processing remains my first love.