I write like a woman

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Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Apparently some scientists have come up with a formula which is supposed to tell (with 80% accuracy) whether a passage of fiction was written by a male or a female. Someone then created a web page to run the analysis on any text that you cut and paste into a form.

I ran it on several of my stories and chapters from my novel, and all but two came back as female. So it’s not perfect, obviously.

I also tested the first chapter of several works of literature that are available online, and found the following:

Little Women: Female
Pride and Prejudice: Female
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Male
Jane Eyre: Female
Tarzan of the Apes: Male
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Female (Incorrect)
Last of the Mohicans: Male
Robinson Crusoe: Female (Incorrect)
Great Expectations: Female (Incorrect)
The Scarlett Pimpernel: Male (Incorrect)