using browser history to calculate gender

by violet blue on July 28, 2008

viv, my future ex girlfriend
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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The London Times named Violet Blue "One of the 40 bloggers who really count" and TinyNibbles is named one of Self Magazine’s “Best Sex Resources for Women.” Blue is the Founder, Editor and Owner of TinyNibbles and many other popular web properties. She is a Forbes Web Celeb, a columnist for CBS Interactive/ZDNet, and is one of Wired's Faces of Innovation. Blue teaches and lectures around the world (including two Google Inc. Tech Talks on sex) and is the Author and Editor of over 35 best-selling, award-winning books. She is regarded as the foremost expert in the field of sex and technology and has guested on Oprah, CNN and more.

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{ 8 comments… read them below or add one }

1 mordochai July 29, 2008 at 1:04 am

Digg.com 1.56 male.
also, about 15.6 years old on average.

2 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…..

3 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’.

4 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.

5 mykill July 29, 2008 at 6:16 am

Ha! says i’m 50/50.
Sounds about right.

6 Will July 29, 2008 at 9:34 am

Gah, 96% male. I always considered myself less masculine than that.

7 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.

8 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.

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