text analysis

[Mike Rosing]

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