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Old 03-06-11, 08:46 PM
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Default The Naipaul test: Can you tell an author's sex?

The Naipaul test: Can you tell an author's sex? | Books | guardian.co.uk

I got 2/10 - considerably less than random probability.

I've also never read one of the chap's books - they always looked heavy going.
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No. Nothing about any of them gives me any indication of the authors sex. But there are quite a lot of female writers in SF and I don't experience them any differently.
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