Guessing gender from browser history

Nat Torkington Nat Torkington 2008-08-01

I just found a clever trick for guessing gender from browser history. I tried it and then realized that I'm a crappy test for the system: yes, likelihood of my being male is 99%. But if I read a hardcore geek tech blog, then that's probably the case anyway. I could emulate that behaviour with a simple return(G_MALE) in the code.

I pushed the link to a few women for some more strenuous testing. Penny Leach was told she's 52% likely to be female, and Laurel at O'Reilly was told she's 50% likely to be female. Perhaps on the internet, everyone surfs like a MALE with probability 50%. How'd the test work for you? Let me know in the comments ....

Discussion

miracleli, 2008/08/03

我52%是男性。性别不是很鲜明。

未来商家一定会分析浏览网站用户的性别。

xuyadong , 2008/08/05

我99%是男性。:)

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