Computer program guesses sex of authors

	posted by Adam on Saturday July 12, @09:00AM from the Weird-but-interesting dept.
	Garth writes "Researchers have developed a computer program that can guess the sex of an author with 80% accuracy by simply reading their work. Surprisingly (or not), they have been denied publication on the grounds that their work is sexist. One critic states: "This whole rush to categorisation usually works against women." The researchers say they are "just reporting the numbers.""

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Opensource it (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Saturday July 12, @07:29PM EST (#1) Why don't they slap the GPL on it and give it out to the community?

Re:Opensource it (Score:1) by Dittohd on Saturday July 12, @09:20PM EST (#2) (User #1075 Info) GPL? Dittohd

Re:Opensource it (Score:1) by angry_young_men on Saturday July 12, @11:52PM EST (#3) (User #1305 Info) GPL As for GPLing the software, I suspect they'll want to profit from their efforts, then again, it is a university team from the sounds of the article, who knows 8-)

Publish or perish (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Sunday July 13, @05:46AM EST (#4) For a bit more depth, yes, they are University Researchers. In the University culture, to succeed you MUST publish in recognized refereed publications. Now, these publications (and academia in general) tend to be quite political, and if your papers don't conform with the current view, you will likely not be published. So, to me this is another example of how political correctness helps steer research in ways that it shouldn't necessarily be steered. Garth

Funny... (Score:1) by Hunsvotti on Sunday July 13, @06:33AM EST (#5) (User #573 Info) The opposition seems to think that saying that there is any difference at all between the way men and women think can ONLY be to the disadvantage of women... yet we ALREADY KNOW that our brains do not work the same way. We have CAT SCANS to prove it.

I can do this myself (Score:2) by Mark on Sunday July 13, @12:48PM EST (#6) (User #181 Info) If I see alot of "like", "he goes", "she goes", and "I was like so..." then I know which gender wrote it.

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