Are You a Man or Woman?

Posted on August 9, 2008
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Some fun following a link Razib posted. It’s a program that checks your browser history to decide if you are a man or a woman.

I guess most of the sites I visit (mainly blogs or news sites) weren’t in it’s database. Interestingly the ones that threw the decision for my being male were these ones: drudgereport.com (2.08:1), macrumors.com (2.08:1), macosxhints.com (2.13) and slashdot.org (1.74:1). Which is interesting since outside of looking at headlines at drudge every now and then I don’t visit any of those sites very often. Of course all the sites they listed still were predominantly male. The only one I got that was partially female was usps (oddly neither fedex nor ups were in their database).

The other funny thing was that my wife was browsing with my computer all morning and none of the sites she visited affected the score.

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4 Responses to “Are You a Man or Woman?”

Interesting — the Deseret News (1.35:1) is more masculine than the other newspapers I visit regularly, including the New York Times (1.13:1) and the Christian Science Monitor (1.25:1)? (What if I only read recipes and Dear Abby?) The Salt Lake Tribune isn’t rated — I knew there was something funny going on over there …

Genealogy databases are strongly female (FamilySearch 0.67:1; Rootsweb 0.69:1, Ancestry 0.63:1), as is photobucket.com (0.85:1).

Note to Steve Evans: GoogleCanada is masculine (1.33:1); GoogleUSA not quite so much (0.98:1).

The program decided my likelihood of being male was 52%, female 48%. Looks like I’m going to have to lay off of eBay (1.11:1) and hang out more at WorldCat (0.83:1).

2 Gerald Smith on August 11th, 2008 7:19 am

Do you really need a web program to determine if you are male or female? What are the odds if you just check yourself in the mirror next time you step out of the shower?

I think it’s more interesting as a technology for computers to interact with you. So for instance Google which keeps far better track of browsing histories than this could do a lot with it.

Well, I’m apparently 60% female.

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