Hmmmm.

[treeskin]

This morning's lemmign made me think about someting Karen said last weekend. We were talking about how some people trot out different parts of their personalities in different situations. Karen told me that I do this....she said she's noticed a big difference from "JR" who comes home from work in uniform, with squared shoulders and a swagger and a bit of an attitude (her words, mind), and "Jera" who emerges from the shower a few minutes later, a bit softer in personality. Karen also said that if she saw me in "JR" uniform walking across festival, without knowing me, she'd peg me as a little butch dyke. Very funny, considering I've been called that at work before. And now that the lemming tells me I'm "58% masculine". Wonder how they judged that, anyway.

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According to the creator's website, it apparently uses a simplified version of the approach described in this research paper (http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~koppel/male-female-text-final.pdf).

I took a quick gander at it, and the the major factors appear to be specific types of pronoun usage and noun modifiers (definite/indefinite articles, cardinal numbers, quantifiers, etc.).