The author claims "it was often easy to distinguish between male and female handwriting, whether through the curve or slant of a letter or word." In this survey, researchers "used five male and female samples of the phrase “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,” and asked 3,100 respondents to identify the gender." Female handwriting, after analysing the results, is trickier than male handwriting, so "as respondents had better luck guessing male samples by a score of 61% to 47%." " Also,"[m]en identified male handwriting successfully 64% of the time, whereas women correctly identified male handwriting writing 59% of the time. Likewise, women were more successful than men at identifying female handwriting by a margin of 49% to 45%." However, "this isn’t a definitive or conclusive survey," but raises doubts on how the Internect affects handwriting.
The author begins with a question: "Remember when you were younger, and learning cursive was a big deal?" It has an informal tone, since it includes personal pronouns, but not orally informal. It has a straightforward language, without making any metaphores or such, mentions the results of the surveys accurately, and effectively informs the reader. However, the author weakens the relevance of the essay by stating that "As mentioned, this isn’t a definitive or conclusive survey, since all of the participants were from the Bay Area" in the conclusion.
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/08/can_you_guess_someones_gender_based_only_on_handwriting_partner/
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