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6/10! *NM* Dark Knight Send a noteboard - 03/06/2011 06:06:09 PM
There are always people out there who would claim that men and women write inherently different types of fiction/language/whatever. The latest such is V.S. Naipaul. I have always been sceptical of the claim and I find it absurd that a well respected author like Naipaul, who has spent his writing life tackling another form of marginalisation, would spout such nonsense.

Anyway. Here is a test. I'd be interested to hear what you get, as a semi-scientific sampling of the reading public (please let me know if you get something right because you recognise the passage).
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Sex and writing - 03/06/2011 03:45:43 PM 1332 Views
This test simply reinforced a completely different opinion of mine. - 03/06/2011 04:07:26 PM 785 Views
Literature reflects society. Welcome to the age of text messaging *NM* - 03/06/2011 06:08:53 PM 373 Views
Agreed. *NM* - 03/06/2011 10:14:05 PM 346 Views
I really disliked those excerpts as well - 04/06/2011 02:10:36 AM 744 Views
5/10. Exactly as chance would predict. *NM* - 22/06/2011 11:27:25 AM 353 Views
6/10 - 03/06/2011 04:34:19 PM 720 Views
9/10: Not bad, but you're no Sir Vidia - 03/06/2011 04:56:08 PM 921 Views
6/10! *NM* - 03/06/2011 06:06:09 PM 362 Views
7/10. - 03/06/2011 07:15:44 PM 845 Views
6/10. Would be 7/10 but I thought #10 was a trick question. *NM* - 03/06/2011 07:17:51 PM 350 Views
8/10, but that is really largely luck if you ask me. - 03/06/2011 07:45:07 PM 823 Views
7/10 - 03/06/2011 09:52:40 PM 768 Views
5/10 I was guessing on all of them though. - 03/06/2011 11:19:09 PM 741 Views
8/10 - 04/06/2011 12:54:02 AM 769 Views
Guessed all the way through. 2/10 - 04/06/2011 04:06:08 AM 680 Views
9/10, but that doesn't mean a thing... - 04/06/2011 08:06:00 AM 770 Views
I also got 4 out of 10 - 04/06/2011 02:17:50 PM 799 Views
At the same time? - 06/06/2011 04:54:09 PM 777 Views
7/10 *NM* - 22/06/2011 08:49:07 PM 375 Views
These results don't prove Naipaul wrong - 30/06/2011 07:58:39 PM 889 Views

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