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Browsing for gender

Posted on: August 6th, 2008 | Categories: Design, Engineering, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Personal, Psychology, Representation, Technology | 3 Comments »
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Just found out about this rather nifty tool that looks at your browser history and estimates your gender. My personal results were as follows:

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 24%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 76%

Try it out for yourself, or read more about how your gender is estimated here…


| Posted on: August 6th, 2008
Other related posts and pages: |Gender & GPS | Alien Games | Alien games paper, published | How does my browser know I am Indian? | Google, teaching & creativity |


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3 Responses to “Browsing for gender”

  1. DIrkin Says:
    August 10th, 2008 at 11:14 am

    Interesting,
    I clear Firefox’s private data every time I quit the app to cut down on data mining my browser by sites and to stop the leaching of my private information for others gain (here’s looking at you Google!). So, I happened to go straight to this site to get some info on TPACK for a project, saw this post and decided to see what would gender I’d be only having visited punya.educ.msu.edu & of course the prediction site. It predicted:

    Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 50%
    Likelihood of you being MALE is 50%

    Does that mean your site is gender neutral?

  2. Punya Mishra Says:
    August 10th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    I guess so :-)
    ~ punya

  3. leigh Says:
    August 10th, 2008 at 4:18 pm

    Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 96%
    Likelihood of you being MALE is 4%
    mmmm…

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