Internet Gender Identification
A clever lad has built a small snippet of code that’ll give you a good guess at whether you’re a boy or a girl. It works rather well! Turns out, I’m male.
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Haha, 100% Male. Busted!
Funny implementation, seems to be skewed towards us-sites though.
It is skewed, yes, but I would call this more of a proof of concept than anything. Imagine this with a google-size database of gender distribution. I’d wager the results would be prette definitive.
Oh dear. Apparently there’s a 79% chance that I’m male, based on my browsing habits, and that’s 100% wrong.
Yay for being an outlier?
GODDAMMIT 100% CHANCE FEMALE. I actually dislike most females. Goddammit.
Guys, (and girls), don’t take it personally. I just heard that my sister is, apparently also, male. And that’s not such a bad thing. We’re not as pretty or elegant, but we can chop wood up real fast.
More to the point, I think the database of cookie websites this guy has indexed is skewed and a bit old. If this was ever to be used to, say, direct specific book recommendations at Amazon.com, I would reckon Amazon would expand the database hundredfold, and tweak it continuously using a bayesian algohrithm. Then it might guess right.
Pretty interesting actually. I turned out 100% male and my girlfriend got ~70% female. There’s definitely a lot of potential in this.
Well yes, I also turned out to be more male then female. Kind of fifty fiftyish. It makes a lot of sense though.
Not sure. If anything you should count as two girls these days ;)
Haha you’r so right. Maybe we’ll be surprised on the 26th of April.