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She first mentions such halfway through the article, and her writing style is masculine. Even I guessed (not assumed) male until that point. <shrug>
by evincarofautumn 13y ago
She first mentions such halfway through the article, and her writing style is masculine. Even I guessed (not assumed) male until that point. <shrug>
- esperluette 13y agowhat does "her writing style is masculine" even MEAN?
- evincarofautumn 13y agoDunno, now that you mention it. There’s some research[1] that correlates word choice and grammatical structure with author gender, predicting gender with ~80% accuracy. Presumably I do something like that without thinking about it. [1]: Shlomo Argamon, Moshe Koppel, Jonathan Fine, and Anat Rachel Shimoni: Gender, Genre, and Writing Style in Formal Written Texts