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julesjones ([personal profile] julesjones) wrote 2008-09-22 07:44 pm (UTC)

There are cues in people's writing styles, but they're not as reliable an indicator as some people think. For example, if you run a sample of my writing through the Gender Genie, it will almost certainly be tagged as male, and that is in part because I am a scientist and have been trained to write a certain way. And there are these stereotypes about interests that are stereotypes because they *are* common, but "common" is not the same as "universal".

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