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The VS Naipaul Test: Can You Tell An Author's Sex?

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First Posted: 06/02/11 11:39 AM ET Updated: 08/02/11 06:12 AM ET

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guardian.co.uk:

In an interview at the Royal Geographic Society this week, during which VS Naipaul provoked fury by suggesting that women writers are 'sentimental' and 'unequal to me', he also claimed that 'I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.' Do you?

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In an interview at the Royal Geographic Society this week, during which VS Naipaul provoked fury by suggesting that women writers are 'sentimental' and 'unequal to me', he also claimed that 'I read a ...
In an interview at the Royal Geographic Society this week, during which VS Naipaul provoked fury by suggesting that women writers are 'sentimental' and 'unequal to me', he also claimed that 'I read a ...
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Knothare1230
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06:57 AM on 06/04/2011
"You scored 6 out of a possible 10
Sloppy thinking. You clearly need to read more books by men."
Opps- worst 4 is easily identifiable if you read the book.
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naschkatze
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11:28 AM on 06/03/2011
I didn't take the test. Honestly, I couldn't tell and I would have just been guessing.
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12:14 PM on 06/02/2011
10 out of 10! woohoo...wait is that good?
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10:54 AM on 06/03/2011
Only you can know that!! :)
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12:02 PM on 06/02/2011
4 out of 10. Ouch.
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10:54 AM on 06/03/2011
Me, too, 4 out of 10. What a hoot!! :)
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11:09 AM on 06/02/2011
There are programs that will analyze your writing and tell you if it's likely written by a man or a woman. I’m female, but every writing sample I’ve tested has been judged to be male, except fiction written from a female POV.
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