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planetalyx linked to The Gender Genie, which "uses an algorithm developed by Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology, to predict the gender of an author."

I input three passages from separate sections of my last novel, each from the point of view of a different character (one male, one adult female, one female child). All came out male. I input the first few paragraphs from two of my other novels. Both came out male.

I input my last LJ entry ("Bits of Oak"), and it came out female.

Looked like there might be something interesting afoot. But the previous LJ entry of any length (about the blackout) came out male, and so did a chunk of my private journal. So much for an analyzable delineation between constructed narrative and personal narrative.

I just input the above three paragraphs. "The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: Male!"

I suspect George Eliot has nothing to worry about.