What can you tell by the way a person writes?

[Leslie36369]

OK and yes we have lol

[cindy16]

I tried some of my posts from here on that Gender Guesser link and they mostly came out 'weak female', i.e. in the 40-50% range, with some going in the 50-60% range.
I tried some stuff I had written long back, formal as well as informal, and it almost always came out male, ranging from around 50% to as high as 75% in some cases.

Am I changing with time, or am I just writing differently on this forum, or is this thing totally nuts?

[Leslie36369]

I think its changing with time. The more stuff I sunmitter that was newer the more was female.
All of my post were female (that I submitted at aleast ) may also be that we are able to speak freely from judgment . 

[Elsa Delyth]

I put quite a bit of writing into the guesser, before I saw that it is only designed to work for American English. Canadian/European English tends to give "weak gender" identifications, which is why it says that you're probably European when it does that.   

To answer the OP, no, I can't tell. I don't really try to.

[Leslie36369]

I noticed that too. I'm American so I guess it wasn't biased towards me.
I kept wanting to read all the stuff below but I got infatuated with how female my writing was and obsessivley ran more things through.
I think I'm going to go read the description underneath while I'm away from all my word documents lol

[Leslie36369]

OK so I just read most of the description and this probably stood out to me more than anything. It is the example they give for this bullet. It would be easy to interperut this to a lot of our personal circumstances. How we presented most of our lives.

Many factors can impact the interpretation from any single person's writing. The content, knowledge of the material, age of the author, nationality, experience, occupation, and education level can all impact writing styles. For example, a woman who has spent 20 years working in a male-dominated field may write like her co-workers. Similarly, professional female writers (and experienced hobbyists) frequently use male writing styles. Gender Guesser does not take any of these factors into account.

[Elsa Delyth]

Well, philosophy is overwhelmingly dominated by men, probably 95% of the people I've read were male -- and the other 5% that were female probably wrote like males because of the sources of their education.

Although, that implies that pretty much all good, and professional writers, write like men...

[Leslie36369]

What I felt was the most honest is when I just sit down and wrote whatever I was thinking at the moment. From what I can tell it doesn't have a biased towards substance, rather word gfoupings.
When I put in some free writing it came back with a high female score but there was still some male in there. Which I think due to many factors listed and otherwise I will always have.
I know the whole thing seems silly but I think for all of us it is a good acknowledgment that the way we write therefore likely the way we speak is for feminine.

[Elsa Delyth]

Too bad it only works for American English though, I should look around for one that works for European English.

[ThePhoenix]

I play an online game called Bad Eggs once in a while.  It has a lot of players of all different ages, and unfortunately has a lot of horny young teenagers.  I got tired of getting hit on, so I changed my avatar from a female avatar to a distinctly male one with a beard.  I didn't fool a single person.  I just started getting unsolicited advice from every group of random strangers telling me things like "you know, if you want to make people think you're a guy, you really need to [insert whatever it was]."  It was weird and I still have no idea how that happened.  But it went on for a couple of hours.  I tried doing that again recently and got the same result.  No idea why.

On trans* sites, I'm afraid I usually get it backwards.  I tend to see posts fro my trans women and think they are from men and trans men and think they are from women.  I'm to the point where I tend to guess a gender and then use its opposite pronouns because I'm usually backwards.

I've seen the gender guesser site.  I don't remember if I tried it.  But I'm not going to because it seems about as valid as things like the COGIATI or those "what greek goddess are you?" type quizzes.  But it's a fun little game, I suppose.

[Leslie36369]

I need to check out some RPG's it seems like most of the people here play something and I'm up all kinds of crazy hours with nothing to do.
What are some that are fun? I haven't played any in forever

[gennee]

Years ago, someone told me that I was very intense just by reading my handwriting. I never really thought of myself as an intense individual.

[DangerTom]

This website claims to be able to tell: http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php?

I got "weak male". I guess it's only judging by writing styles and not by muscles... *flexes* :-P

I disagree that it's about brain differences; while there is some difference between how men and women function socially perhaps, this difference is clouded by years of socialization, at least when it comes to writing/speaking styles. I grew up with brothers, and I generally have masculine patterns of speech, which I tried to cover up for some years by trying to go more feminine. However, now that I'm presenting masculine I'm realizing how feminine my speech patterns/voice are.

[ImagineKate]

I mostly get weak female, but not so much from my postings here.