RE: This is interesting...

Subject: RE: This is interesting...
From: "Van Boening, Tammy" <tammy -dot- vanboening -at- Fiserv -dot- com>
To: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>, "Evelyn Lee Barney" <evbarney -at- comcast -dot- net>, "Emily Berk" <emily -at- armadillosoft -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 19:53:57 -0600

LOL and my male outnumbered my female the other way!

TVB


Tammy L. Van Boening
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Fiserv Insurance Solutions
Property and Casualty Division
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Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 4:32 PM
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Subject: Re: This is interesting...

I tried four different writing samples and for each of them my "female"
outscored my "male" by about 2:1.

Gene Kim-Eng

----- Original Message -----
From: "Evelyn Lee Barney" <evbarney -at- comcast -dot- net>
> Well HMPH!
>
> What does this say about how we are taught to write, and by whom?
> About who decides what style is "best?" Or, what does it say about
> the test? I admit to being a bit of a hoyden, but I am decidedly
female. I took this test three times. The first piece I plugged in was
an essay on the uses of sound and silence in the classic Frtiz Lang
film, "M" -- my score was overwhelmingly male.
> Next, I tried part of an article I'm working on about the use of
> electronic portfolios for professional writers. Again, overwhelmingly

> MALE! Last, I found the piece I thought was perhaps the most
> "feminine" of anything I've done in the past few months, based on the
> subject matter, a defence of melodrama as an art form (a la Douglas
Sirk). Well, that one did come out female, by a mere 120 points. The
point spread on the other two was over 400 points. Just as an FYI -
each sample I used was between 550 - 620 words.
>
> Now I'm curious - have any of you played with this? What were your
results?

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Re: This is interesting...: From: Evelyn Lee Barney
Re: This is interesting...: From: Gene Kim-Eng

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