Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Alphaville's Izabella Kaminska Writes Like a Boy (but is kind to the elderly and robots)

We ran Izabella's latest FT Alphaville post, "Behold the new, new economy?", through three different gender analyzers, being careful to remove the extended quote from Martin Wolf:
http://stealthserver01.ece.stevens-tech.edu/gendercreatetext?count=9885

http://genderanalyzer.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fftalphaville.ft.com%2F2014%2F02%2F12%2F1770302%2Fbehold-the-new-new-economy%2F

http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php#Analyze
and received these results:
http://stealthserver01.ece.stevens-tech.edu/
The Gender Of The Author Who Wrote This File is: male 86.70% 
http://genderanalyzer.com/
We have strong indicators that http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/02/12/1770302/behold-the-new-new-economy/ is written by a man (96%). 
http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php 
Genre: Informal                                                
  Female = 183
  Male   = 475
  Difference = 292; 72.18%
  Verdict: MALE 
Genre: Formal
  Female = 236
  Male   = 266
  Difference = 30; 52.98%
  Verdict: Weak MALE

Weak emphasis could indicate European. 
Regarding "being kind to the elderly",
If you read the piece by Mr. Wolf that she links to you will recognize that much of the ground he covers has already been ploughed by FT Alphaville but she doesn't call him out on it. Very kind.
Plus she links to us.
Very, very kind.