I gave it a 600-word batch of blog entries. It thinks I'm male, but just barely (871 to 837).
The algorithm seems to be looking only at the uses of particular words, and its patterns look crazy to me. "Is" and "are" are feminine words, but "was" is masculine?? Articles are feminine?? It's way too simplistic. There may well be differences in men's and women's writing styles generally, but I have my doubts that this little tool gets at them.
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