On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
FWIW: There's a paragraph in the current _Science_ that mentions "Winnow", a program by some .il researchers that guesses the sex of authors by their writing. They claim 80% accuracy on general lit
Perhaps impressive, perhaps not. What's the actual percentage ratio? I bet it's decidedly male.
and 74% accuracy on 30 science papers.
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