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 and 74% accuracy on 30 science papers. (Of course that's over a baseline of 50%...)
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 and 74% accuracy on 30 science papers.
(Of course that's over a baseline of 50%...)
Maybe they'd do better if they guessed their "gender preference" instead of their sex :-) Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike
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.
Considering the known sex ration in science fields one can guess 'male' all the time and hit that level. -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage@ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------
At 12:09 AM 04/30/2003 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
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.
Considering the known sex ration in science fields one can guess 'male' all the time and hit that level.
Yup. Weather forecasting in Ithaca New York was similarly simple. "50% chance of rain today" (Or snow, in the winter...)
On Thursday 01 May 2003 03:37, Bill Stewart wrote:
Yup. Weather forecasting in Ithaca New York was similarly simple. "50% chance of rain today" (Or snow, in the winter...)
Weather in Boston is so variable that the weathermen can't even forecast yesterday's weather. Don't like the springtime weather in the Adirondacks? Just wait an hour. (Barely a joke---a couple of weeks ago, we had a day hit almost 80F and the next day had an ice storm that brought down trees and power lines; some people were without power for four days, and this with nighttime lows around 10F. Then the days turned warm enough that the three to six inches of new snow and ice melted in a day or two. Sometimes I miss Arizona...) -- Steve Furlong Computer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Guns will get you through times of no duct tape better than duct tape will get you through times of no guns. -- Ron Kuby
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