Article Link Here (http://tech.msn.com/security/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1042428>1=8706)
The article discusses how you may reveal who you are through your posting habits and word usage even if you are using an anonymous service or device to disguise who you are while on the 'Net.
Vocabulary and gender
In his talk, Kazwetz mentioned several studies on gender use of keywords which, when weighted--with specific numerical values for male and different numerical values for female--can determine the gender of the author. Sounds too simple to be true, but research (including Gender, Genre, and Writing Style in Formal Written Texts by Shlomo Argamon, et al., and Sexed Texts by Charles McGrath) has shown that some words are more likely to be written by one gender or the other. In informal writing, men are more likely to write "some," "this", and "as" while women are more likely to write "actually," "everything," and "because." In formal writing, men write "around," "more," and "what" while women write "if," "with," and "where." By determining the point totals in a given document, Dr. Krawetz can predict the gender of the author.
Here is a tool (http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.html) that uses this research to analyze writing using this method and attempts to guess your gender by your writing style. It's pretty fun.
Melissa
So I tried your tool, Melissa and found the results kind of interesting. The results seemed to reflect who my audience was rather than me. I took most of my long posts from here and it returned male, female, and week in both as well. when It came to papers I had to write they were strong male. but letters I had written to female friends were strong female. I know its only 60-75% acurate but...interesting :)
Yeah, my writings got a mix of both. I think the ones that I wrote where I felt more emotional when I wrote them come out as female.
Melissa
Thats an interesting little tool LoL.... it seemed to totaly depend on my mood that day, how emotional I was and what the toppic was..... I also noticed that my writeing has become more and more feminin as time passes.... (Just so you all know, my spelling is so bad that I cant talk the way I type *Shrugs*)