Gender Detector
July 18, 2003
Who penned the words you are reading now - a man, or a woman? With the help of a newly developed computer algorithm, you'd have a good chance of guessing correctly. The program analyzes a writer's use of simple words like "you," "the," and "with" - and has an 80 percent rate of accuracy. Brooke talks to technology writer Clive Thompson about the so-called gender-detector.
