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Gender-spotting tool could have rumbled fake blogger

2 pointsby essrandalmost 14 years ago

3 comments

gaiusalmost 14 years ago
But how is this affected by sexual orientation? Now I don't actually know about this mind, but sometimes I drink in a bar that is a local hotspot for lesbians, and there are definitely some that are more masculine and some that are more feminine (clothes, haircut, choice of drink, etc). Whether that's just fashion or carries over to writing too I don't know.
greimalmost 14 years ago
What they should do is apply these sort of algorithms to detect sock puppets and "personas" used by powerful interests to astroturf the internet.
erehwebalmost 14 years ago
...or not. Article notes that blog post came out as only 63% likely to be male.