Do You Type Like A Pedophile?

The Sun brings word of professor Roy Maxion, who has done research on the variations in typing speed, rhythm, and weight to determine the age and gender of the typist. Says former police inspector Phil Butler, an official on the record, of Maxion, “He can now identify anyone using a keyboard within a 95 per cent accuracy within ten keystrokes. As soon as you type ten numbers or letters he can work out your sex, your culture, your age and whether you have any hand injuries.” It is suggested that this method of identification could help alert children that they are actually IMing with an adult-perhaps even a member of the clergy, whose years of handling the sacrament has surely affected his keystrokes-rather than a sexting partner of their own age. It all seems a bit unlikely to me, but then again ALL CAPS and an AOL address are already used to identify crazy people, so maybe there’s something to it.