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Originally Posted by Zukin  One study by Erina MacGeorge found only a 2% difference in the conversational styles of men and women, and reported that in general both sexes communicated in similar ways. |
Exactly.
I've never had a problem talking with a woman on a subject I easily talk about with a man. Any communication problems that exist would exist if the participants used the same techniques on their own sex.
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Originally Posted by Brien Maybe so, but here's a little toy that given a block of text will guess the gender of the author. It's not perfect, but I find it to be correct more often than not |
I'd like to see the algorithm behind that. I can do it, too, but I've never been able to pin down how I figure it out beyond intuition. I'll have to look at it...
Erina MacGeorge, if you read the
article sourced, was talking strictly about supporting commentary, comforting, social grooming, etc. Not, "So, you want to come upstairs/have a little fun/get married?"
Incidentally, the Gender Genie got the writer of the Purdue article wrong.
And I dropped some of my fiction into it and got tagged as a female. Which didn't surprise me, but... heh.
edit: I dropped a couple more pieces of fiction in and it got it right. My scores seem to balance the higher the word count; I'm male usually by less than 10%. Fascinating.