It’s time to come clean
The Reclusive Leftist is a man. And an INTP.
Uclassify says so.
29 Responses to “It’s time to come clean”
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Keri says:
I think that Gender Analyzer thing has a sexist bias. You can also have it check bits of text to determine if the writer is male or female. I suspected a sexist bias when my livejournal blog posts- feminist with lots of political content this year was classified as masculine, while my myspace page was classified as feminine, even though some of the blog entries were in both, my interests on myspace are part of the text that would be analyzied, while the profile is at a seperate url on livejoural so would not be counted in. I decided to test for a sexist bias using the test checker element here:
http://uclassify.com/Browse.aspxI picked out a recent post I did that wasn’t political and checked by paragraphs-
this paragraph is classified 86.7% female, 13.3% male:
Hmm, which hobby shall I indulge? Reading the last Harry Potter book, working on my annual late year doll costume project, or writing more of my narusaku fanfiction? Heh, I’ll probably end up doing all three but practically I should really focus on one.This paragraph is classified 63.4% male, 36.6% female:
I’m tending to think reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is probably the best choice, I’ll finish it fairly quickly. For me, unlike the diehard Harry Potter fandom people I found the books more interesting as they went along, books 1-3 were so boring that I couldn’t get past a couple of chapters. Book 4 started out dull but I skipped to the last third of the book to give it a second chance, because it didn’t seem as bad as the first three- I made it through about the first third of the book before utter boredom about the characters set in.While this paragraph is classified 77.0% male, 23.0% female:
The problem is Harry Potter is a completely unintersting character to me. Too flat and too much toward a Gary-Stu. It’s actually the female characters that are more interesting to me (Other than Ginny Weasley, who is a flat character much like Harry). The fifth book I almost made it straight through, but got bored about midway through and skipped about three chapters, the rest of the book was fine. The first book I actually enjoyed of the series was the sixth book. That one I read all the way through- in a couple of nights no less.And the final paragraph is classified 52.0% female, 48.0% male:
What kept me from reading the last book were some people on my friends list (the only major Harry Potter book fans on my friends list) who complained about how bad the book was. I recently realized though, that those three people were all yaoi/slash fans, thus would have been biased against the book because their ships didn’t happen. When I put that together with my liking for the sixth book, which none of those three liked as much as books 1-4, I think it is a good sign I’ll probably enjoy book 7. I’m certainly willing to give it a shot.Do you see the sexist bias of the analyzer too? Text that critiques something is masculine, the only text that is classified feminine is text that includes interests known to be attractive to women.
November 20th, 2008 at 6:26 pm EST -
Keri says:
Hey, looks like my comment above clicked on some random wordpress filter, it’s an experiment I did with one of my livejournal entries and the text analysis part of that uclassify program.
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Violet says:
Of course it has a sexist bias. Most of those things do.
There was some kind of quiz last year, I think, that all the bloggers were taking. I scored as extremely masculine, even more masculine than the average man. Heh.
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Lisa says:
Hey! I am an INTJ!
how ridiculous that they think they can pick your sex…
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ElleR says:
Me, too. 84% masculine and an INTP. I also used O’Faust and found out that my writing is a cross between Edgar Allen Poe and Freiderich Nietze. What an awful mix!
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Anna Belle says:
Dude, according to Uclassify, we’re ALL men. Hehe.
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Branjor says:
What’s an INTP?
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Yanni Znaio says:
Results:
We think http://hotelsierra.blogspot.com is written by a woman (62%).
HA!
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Violet says:
Myers-Briggs personality type.
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Yanni Znaio says:
INTP is a Myers-Briggs Personality Type classification.
Here’s a link that discusses how to decode it.
Myers-Briggs is quite interesting, byt I personally found the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory to be a lot more fun.
(I believe I am an agent of God. [T/F])
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C.R. says:
wikipedia: INTP types are quiet, thoughtful, analytical individuals who don’t mind spending long periods of time on their own, working through problems and forming solutions.
They are very curious about systems and how things work, and are frequently found in careers such as science, architecture and law.
INTPs tend to be less at ease in social situations and the “caring professions,” although they enjoy the company of those who share their interests. They also tend to be impatient with the bureaucracy, rigid hierarchies, and politics prevalent in many professions, preferring to work informally with others as equals.
It’s just that Dr.V. is a scientist, and we already knew that.
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Violet says:
But did you know that I was a MAN???
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Anna Belle says:
Are you a hot man? I have single friends…
Sorry, couldn’t resist…finding feminist oriented men is a real problem in this world…
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bluemorning says:
I wanted to brag somewhere that I’m a INFJ, thanks for so handily providing a venue. You must have read my mind- what a minute, that’s what INFJ’s do!!
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song says:
Dear Dr. Mr. Socks Sir,
Are you and INTP or not?
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Alwaysthinking says:
The problem is that someone keeps trying to define what is male or female in the first place. Other than certain anatomical features and reproductive or non-reproductive capacities, who is to decide what is really male or female? Especially when it comes to one’s writing and interests? Schools for eons have tried to make girls fit one mold and boys another. We know that some of that is nonsense.
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samanthasmom says:
ENTJ, but married to an INTP. Myers-Briggs has kept us from killing each other. We DO NOT car shop together anymore. We host more parties than we used to, but the guest list is shorter. When I want to travel someplace new, I go with my girlfriends first. Living together “happily ever after” required some self-awareness on both our parts. Now things that used to upset us provide us with laughter instead.
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Keri says:
The personality type analyzer is not accurate as per the actual test. When I’ve taken the test I’m a INFP or INFJ (I’m really close on P vs J, depending on my mood it will shift it just slightly over one way or the other.) The text analyzer classified my blog as ESTJ, and my fanfiction (heh, yes I’m a fanfic writer ;) as ISFP. I wonder what criteria they used to decide what constitutes what type. I’m always very strongly N over S when I’ve taken the actual personality test- it’s the section of the type classification where I am almost completely intuitive over sensing.
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Yanni Znaio says:
Violet says:
But did you know that I was a MAN???
Sorry, don’t buy it.
You’re WAY too intelligent.
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Anna Belle says:
Ha! Good one Yanni. I think it was the absence of overtly sexual male-projected-fantasy imagery that tipped me off. I mean, come on, how sexy are llamas?
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simply wondered says:
‘But did you know that I was a MAN???’
well you’re a doctor not a nurse…
my blog is 65% male – they could have looked at my picture, i spose. damn their fiendish intelligence!
(nice bit in metro about alpacas today that i wanted to send you) love the eddie izzard evil giraffe. -
riverdaughter says:
What the analyzer says to me is that when it comes to the type of writing that people do on blogs, there is really no discernable difference between what a woman writes and what a man writes. I’m betting that a lot of women blog under male usernames and most people can’t tell the difference.
Ooo, could it be that they are just as analytical and lucid as men? Or is it that men are as analytical and lucid as women? -
madamab says:
ISTP here, 77% male. LOL!
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Yanni Znaio says:
Y’all are gonna love this one.
When I was at the pharmacy today, I noticed testosterone transdermal patches on the shelf behind the counter where you turn in your prescription.
I was highly amused to see that testosterone is listed as a controlled substance.
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Cyn says:
ISTP, 69% male here. Madamab, would you like to do lunch? ;-)
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Violet says:
What the analyzer says to me is that when it comes to the type of writing that people do on blogs, there is really no discernable difference between what a woman writes and what a man writes.
You’re just saying that in a desperate attempt to cover up your dark secret that you’re really a MAN. Riverson.
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slythwolf says:
It thinks I’m a man with 98% certainty or whatever. It also tells me I’m an ESTJ, which is apparently a team player who is super organized, thrives on structure, and respects authority. This lone Wolf and her ADHD beg to differ.
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slythwolf says:
Wait, wait, I figured it out. Of course we’re all men. There are no women on the internets!
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yttik says:
I am apparently 96% male. This would help explain all the viagra spam addressed to Ms Kitty.
