Are You A Boy Or A Girl?
Posted by hope on August 4, 2008
This guy has a different idea of fun than I do.
One of the things that I always wanted to do but never got around to was to analyze a user’s browsing history to estimate age and gender. Of course the idea is definitely not new, in fact Xerox (of all companies??) has a patent on the whole process and I’m certain plenty of networks already do something of the sort… but what the heck, let’s have some fun!
So what I did is I modified the SocialHistory JS so that it polled the browser to find out which of the Quantcast top 10k sites were visited. I then apply the ratio of male to female users for each site and with some basic math determine a guestimate of your gender.
Ooh, let’s have some fun! Mmhmm. The lampshade’s got nothing to fear from this guy. But its sort of interesting, I must admit. So yeah, I tried it.
My results:
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 50%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 50%
Liz said
Some of the comments to his post are pretty funny – people have all sorts of thoughts about software trying to identify their sex.
My results on my home PC:
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 99%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 1%
On my work laptop:
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 42%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 58%
Sam said
Fascinating:
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 22%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 78%
Eileen said
That is interesting. My work PC:
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 50%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 50%
Sam said
Home computer:
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 12%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 88%
hope said
Sam, that’s because of all that porn you are looking at.
Sam said
Well, maybe I am…and maybe I AM.
Camille said
Work computer:
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 66%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 34%
Home computer:
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 58%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 42%
I am trying to find larger meaning for my life in these numbers. Maybe I should look at more porn.
ed said
Current Laptop:
Likelihood of you being female is 100%
Likelihood of you being male is 0%
Wow….man I guess I need to watch more espn and porn… lots n lots of porn…
either that or book my flight to Thailand for gender bender work…
hehehehe