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lil · 3727 days ago · link · · parent · post: Hemingway - a web app that shows you when you break Hemingway's rules of writing

I pasted my most recent blog in the gender guessing app. The app differentiates between formal and informal like this:

Formal writing includes fiction and non-fiction stories, articles, and news reports. Informal writing includes blog and chat-room text. (Email can be formal, informal, or some combination.) You should view the results based on the appropriate type of writing. The app defines blogs as a"informal", but I take a more formal narrative approach to my blog, so it could also be formal.

Conclusion: I seem to go both ways. So true:

  Female = 487
  Male   = 734
  Difference = 247; 60.11%
  Verdict: MALE

  Female = 731
  Male   = 712
  Difference = -19; 49.34%
  Verdict: Weak FEMALE

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