I write like:

[C.J_Finn]

Yeah, it just seems a stretch for me to think that Salinger would intentionally give Holden PTSD. Was PTSD even really well defined at the time?

I may be wrong about this, but I believe that in Salinger's time PTSD was known as war fatigue. So I guess it was known about, but just not as understood as it is now. Not 100% on that though, so take it with a grain of salt.

 

[DetachedRetina]

I take everything with a grain of salt. I will probably die of a heart attack quite young. All that sodium. But it would make sense if they had a word for PTSD before it was ratified as a "disorder." Similar to depression and epilepsy and all that.

 

[C.J_Finn]

I take everything with a grain of salt. I will probably die of a heart attack quite young. All that sodium. But it would make sense if they had a word for PTSD before it was ratified as a "disorder." Similar to depression and epilepsy and all that.

Yeah, especially considering that you still need to have some way to explain things even if you can't explain them.

I kind of wonder how other mental disorders were treated/thought of before we were actually able to explain them. I can imagine that diseases such as schizophrenia were generally treated through exorcism (at least by Christian/Catholic families) before people were able to explain it.

 

[DetachedRetina]

Yeah, especially considering that you still need to have some way to explain things even if you can't explain them.

Hahaha yeah. I kind of feel like that's the way even modern psychiatry is. SSRIs are kind of understood, but many of the other meds aren't understood at all. Especially those for bipolar disorder, yet they work!

My experience with psychiatrists at least, has been that they give you a diagnosis based on what meds work for you. Ha! "Well, the antidepressants made you hyperactive and impulsive, so maybe you're bipolar." .... "Well the mood stabilizers aren't having an effect, let's try this other drug and see if you're epileptic."

Imagine if other doctors did that. "The tumor wasn't in your left leg after all, so now we're going to chop off your right leg and check there."

 

[MsAnthropy_Indefatigably]

I don't write much, but I did recently pretend to begin writing a Character Maturation and Development theory I was trying to create and from the two different snippets I gave it, I came up with this David Foster Wallace individual both times. I don't know many Authors at all, especially not just by name, so the info means nothing to me on its own. i guess I will now forego my work and start doing some research into this, my writing style and author similarities including Mr. Wallace, because that's what I do...

 

[MsAnthropy_Indefatigably]

Oh, and for my Gender


Words: 1456

Female Score: 2012
Male Score: 2453
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

I do have a strong animus

 

[shortbuss]

Kurt Vonnegut...you're so jealous right now, lol.

 

[NoID10ts]

I got William Gibson for my novel.

 

[nanook]

it said hp lovecraft

(for several of my postings on this board: 1 2 3)

 

[Chronomar]

I got "HP Lovecraft" for a piece of writing that was a reply to a friend's blog post.

For the sake of SCIENCE and also because I'm too lazy to make a thread on the subject, but wouldn't mind talking about it anyway...here it is:

Spoiler

"...then we must look to the nature of human beings as a basis for what shall be considered individual rights"

That is the most important idea, I think, contained within your post. It is important because of everything which logically flows from it, both in terms of philosophical corollaries and practical ways of crafting policy.

It also attests to the importance of some kind of technocratic presence in government, or at least scientific AND philosophic literacy among those governing or managing anything. Artistic literacy as well. I do not mean that as that those in power should have great depth or breadth of knowledge in, say, Impressionism in painting, but just that they should be able to approach "being human" and the nature of that from as many different angles as possible.

How to encourage that then? Education probably. It would have to be a cultural change.

Note, the stuff in quotes at the beginning is what he had written, that I was quoting, and I did not include that in my post into the "what I write like" testbox.

 

[LcDel]

I got Arthur Clarke for the first page of my novel.
..and Twain for a more experimental (style-wise) piece of writing.

Also, for the gender test of the first text:
Female Score: 1834
Male Score: 2022
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male! (Ouch)

 

[intpz]

I've analyzed a few of my reviews in one forum:

Arthur C. Clarke, INFJ.

Dan Brown, I was unable to find out his personality type within 2 minutes.

Isaac Asimov, INTJ.

Cory Doctorow, was unable to find out what's his personality type within 2 minutes...

Lewis Carroll, ENTP.

Douglas Adams, INTP.

Posts from around this board:

Vladimir Nabokov, ENTP.

Dan Brown, again.

David Foster Wallace, INTP.

Mary Shelley, INTJ.


Odd how it gives different results every time I check a different ramble. Who wants to check more than 5 of their own posts for comparison?

 

[Cindy]

Stephen King

 

[Jennywocky]

Hilarious, I inputted a short piece I wrote about meeting this woman who I really admired and wanted to be like....
... and it told me I write like H.P. Lovecraft.

I guess if I sacrifice her body to the Elder Gods, I can eat what is left of her soul.
It's kind of a win-win, ya know?

 

[cghhmnrtt]

I analyzed various texts of substantial length at random and received the following results:

4 papers, 3 emails: H.P. Lovecraft
1 research paper, 1 email: David Foster Wallace
1 paper, 1 email: Cory Doctorow
1 narrative: Edgar Allen Poe
1 email: Chuck Palahniuk
1 paper: Margaret Atwood
1 paper: Isaac Asimov
1 email: James Joyce

Since the website specifies English, curiosity induced me to enter emails in foreign languages. The following results were received, not that it really means anything:

one language: Mark Twain (1), Harry Harrison (2)
another language: Agatha Christie (2)
another language: Vladimir Nabakov (2)

 

[Smooch]

Put in a very short piece of fiction. Got James Joyce. Anyone know what his MBTI type is?

 

[Absurdity]

Nonfiction piece: H. P. Lovecraft
Fiction piece: Ian Fleming

It is clear to me that I must now write a partially fictionalized novel entitled From Cthulhu, with Love.

 

[walfin]

James Joyce.

But I screwed the test; I wrote in Esperanto.

 

[ProxyAmenRa]

H P Lovecraft

 

[P.H.]

I put a short piece of my Harry Potter fanfiction in it: J.K Rowling.

When I replaced all the Harry Potter terms I got Dan Brown.

I wonder what key words it pickes up. Or would it also analyse sentence structure?

 

[addictedartist]

James joyce, this is not the first time my writing style has been likened to his

 

[RubberDucky451]

Writing "nigger" 20 times produced:

Spoiler

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

...Anyways! Writing normally I got James Joyce most of the time.

 

[shrub77]

Douglas Adams.

My favourite author too.

here's my writing:
My facebook "about me" page
Hi my name is SHrub. I live in the Orion Nebula. I'm here on an extended holiday, but was mistakenly thought to be a High School Student and was treated as such. Currently, I'm being held here against my own will and have been receiving daily reminders that if I do attempt escape, they will remove my antennae in a most unpleasant manner.
If you do see me, please no flash photography, I am allergic.

The "About the Author" page in my New Autobiography:
Shrub currently lives in The United States with his mother. He enjoys recycling and denying friend requests. On the weekends, he occasionally visits his acquaintances. His works have been featured on many public radio stations as well as on The BBC.

My anger at me missing the Transit of Venus:

The Transit of Venus has eluded me today, thanks to the great villain of astronomy, Cloud Cover. Cloud Cover has pestered me in the past, but this...this is inexcusable. It has caused me to miss a once in a lifetime event! And so, if there isn't a sudden breakthrough in medicine that will extend my life up until 2117, I shall officially launch my vendetta against Cloud Cover. My previous vendetta against the Ocean will not be broken, because if I can eliminate the Ocean, Cloud Cover will die too. Two birds, one stone thing. But nevertheless, Cloud Cover will rue the day he decided to condense on the evening of June 5th, 2012! For one hundred years the skies over the Northern Virginia Area will not be tainted by his wretched opaqueness!

I found extra CAT5 cables:
Today, My friends, I will make History. I will attempt to download the entire Internet into my mind. Imagine, the wealth of knowledge and benefits one could obtain from this. From the fields of Information that is Wikipedia, to being able to preform a Google search in less than a nanosecond. But what is the real reason for why I am doing this?
Reddit, /b/ and lolcats. Mainly lolcats.

 

[quantumaddiction]

I entered in a stream-of-consciousness paper I wrote for English and I got Vladimir Nabokov.

On a side note, I pasted an excerpt from The Sun Also Rises and got Kurt Vonnegut. Not correct, but not too far off like some of the others that I'm seeing.

 

[Turniphead]

I think it's just keyword(subject) based...

J.R.R. Tolkien:

elves dwarves turnips and monkeys. i like cake and stuff
turnips are weird

thats ok goblins bats

Ursala K. Le Guin:

the giant octopus ate the ship

Oh no not the ship! yes the ship
waves and stuff
stormy stormy seas

Rudyard Kipling:

wolves and bears and snakes

I'm in the wilderness
What is happening to me? it's frightening out here.
quick let me make a bow out of this tree. I shall carve it with my teeth.

Douglas Adams:

aliens and spaceships and stars

I'm in the wilderness
What is happening to me? it's frightening out here.
quick let me make a bow out of this laser. I shall carve it with my space helmet.

James Joyce:

vegetables and brocoli and lack of punctuation

I'm in the wilderness
What is happening to me? it's frightening out here.
quick let me make a bow out of this turnip. I shall carve it with hoe.

 

[Vladimir]

Sample 1--11th grade research paper for AP English about environmentalism. H.P. Lovecraft, INTP writer.
Sample 2--11th grade product reflection for AP US History. H.P. Lovecraft, INTP writer.
Sample 3--11th grade response for The Great Gatsby, AP Language. Mark Twain. ENFP
Sample 4--narrative for visit to Memorial Art Gallery, AP language 11th grade. H.P. Lovecraft, INTP.
Sample 5--another response to Great Gatsby. H.P. Lovecraft, INTP.
Sample 6--another response to Great Gatsby. H.P. Lovecraft, INTP.
Sample 7--Editorial on Benjamin Spock for AP US. George Orwell INFP.

It looks like I write like that H.P. Lovecraft guy, with an occasional streak of Twain and Orwell.

P.S. I don't write the way Twain writes in Huck Finn ORLFLFO

 

[Vladimir]

Writing "nigger" 20 times produced:

Spoiler

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

...Anyways! Writing normally I got James Joyce most of the time.

ROFLLFRO MArk Twain!! I should have known@!@

 

[ayshay]

I'm an INTP and I apparently write like James Joyce, an INTP himself. I also got Margaret Atwood.

 

[Irukanji]

Says I write like Isaac Asimov, lol. Posted some of my writings into it. Looks like he is an INTP too. I'll need to post some more in to see.

Also getting some David Foster Wallace(INFP/INTP) an Edgar Allan Poe(INFP/INTP). Can't exactly ask them to take a test now can we

 

[kora]

wrote up a piece of my diary and it gave me Margaret Atwood. Seem to remember not liking her books that much? Well I only got about 10 pages into the blind assassin so...

 

[kora]

Did it again with e-mails and letters and got chuck Palahniuk this time, much better

 

[PmjPmj]

Cory Doctorow, apparently.

Never heard of the guy.

 

[titus oates]

very good result -
Your Badge

I write like
James Joyce

 

[DeadonDreaming]

I put in two different pieces and got Cory Doctorow, which is cool since he writes for Boing Boing.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

I write like
Edgar Allan Poe

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!

I write like
H. P. Lovecraft

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!​

~

Edit: out of curiosity, I ran several of Poe's works through the website. Apparently he writes like Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, and H.P. Lovecraft. His writing never was attributed to him.
​

 

[skip]

Rudyard Kipling. Interesting.

 

[themirror]

Isaac Asimov

 

[GrimdarkSeamstress]

I write like James Joyce. Yay! I love him.

 

[Anaximander]

H. P. Lovecraft

 

[duke of new york]

If I put in something like a blog post, it will invariably turn up Cory Doctorow. From stuff that is more representative of the way I usually write, I got H.P. Lovecraft twice and Kurt Vonnegut and Dan Brown once each.

It does seem to be keyword-based, but either way, all of you people getting James Joyce must either be illiterate or batshit fucking insane.

 

[Starswirl]

I put in an assortment of essays of varying academic-ness. I got Wallace once, Poe once, and Lovecraft five times. I've heard Lovcecraft described as either INTP or INTJ, so that makes sense.

As for the gender thing:

A blog-style piece on an academic subject:
Female Score: 369
Male Score: 969

An experimental piece of writing in which I wrote in a very descriptive, less analytical style.
Female Score: 889
Male Score: 738

Two academic essays:
Female Score: 668
Male Score: 1563

Female Score: 1682
Male Score: 1902

 

[SpiralHacker]

I got David Foster Wallace for my last lengthy forum post. I got Gertrude Stein for a speech that I gave. So then I pasted in some C# code and it told me Douglas Adams, haha. This is a neat toy. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Chad]

Both of these seems off to me. The Author generator never gave me the same response twice and the Gender Genie thinks I am a chick. LOL.

 

[perplexitytyissimplicity]

I'm surprised but I got Vladimir Nabokov and male for every writing I entered.-_-

 

[EyeSeeCold]

William Gibson
Arthur Clarke
H. P. Lovecraft x5
Vladimir Nabokov
Isaac Asimov x2
David Foster Wallace
Cory Doctorow

Seems inconsistent and inaccurate; H. P. Lovecraft is a frequent result in general. I would like to know what criteria and algorithms the test is running on.

 

[GodOfOrder]

I got

H.P. Lovecraft twice
Edgar Allen Poe once

 

[C.Hecker88]

Gender Genie: (Fiction)

Spoiler

Female Score: 873
Male Score: 749

I write like: (Fiction)

Spoiler

Margaret Mitchell, writer of Gone with the Wind

I write like: (Facebook Chat)

Spoiler

H.P. Lovecraft, writer of Cthulhu Mythos and the Dunwich Horror

I write like: (Lengthy Forum Posts)

Spoiler

Cory Doctorow, author of Homeland

 

[QuickTwist]

David Foster Wallace
Edgar Allan Poe
H. P. Lovecraft
Cory Doctorow
Dan Brown

Does not make sense.

 

[thekatspajamas]

I just plugged in three different posts of mine and it gave me Arthur Clarke, H.P. Lovecraft, and David Foster Wallace. I haven't read any of their works, though I've heard of Lovecraft.

 

[dark+matters]

Sweet. Jesus. *eye starts twitching*