using browser history to calculate gender

by Violet Blue on July 28, 2008

Vivian, shot by by that Kadrey miscreant.

Fleshbot makes you a guy. Gizmodo = twice as likely to be a guy. More women read Engadget than the Giz, though. BB is a sausage-fest, but I blame the mods. YouTube rates as gender neutral (HUH!?), while Apple is for the femmes. Okay, it’s all based on surveys and no one on the Internet knows if you’re surfing doggy-style. But this “for entertainment purposes only” post Using your browser URL history to estimate gender is rather amusing, if probably sketchily correct.

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{ 8 comments }

1 Coral August 1, 2008 at 12:43 pm: icanhascheezburger.com: 1.04. Huh.

villagevoice.com is also totally neutral.

Anyway, it still got my gender right.
2 Danielle July 31, 2008 at 7:22 pm: From a marketing perspective which is very ignorant to the interests of intelligent women, (as the ratios on this test give) I have a 4% chance of being my gender.
3 Will July 29, 2008 at 9:34 am: Gah, 96% male. I always considered myself less masculine than that.
4 mykill July 29, 2008 at 6:16 am: Ha! says i’m 50/50.
Sounds about right.
5 Lux July 29, 2008 at 5:59 am: I have a zero percent chance of being female.

It’s probably because of all the time I spend on Fleshbot, but, still… I guess I’ll tell my vagina to go packing.
6 quehanna July 29, 2008 at 3:53 am: According to these calculations I’m 100% female. I can already hear all of my lgbt friends giggling and saying ‘we told you so’.
7 Cate July 29, 2008 at 2:02 am: My results: “Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 3% Likelihood of you being MALE is 97%”.

Hmmmm…..
8 mordochai July 29, 2008 at 1:04 am: Digg.com 1.56 male.
also, about 15.6 years old on average.