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Well, at least that’s what the enterprising algorithm-happy person who developed this tool seems to wonder about.
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.
Go to his site and click the link to see your results.
After a few of you do that and list your results in the comments, I’ll paste in what mine were. And you can always guess.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:34 pm July 30th, 2008 in Gender, Tech
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Hahahaha… just BARELY got it right!
Ha! that is hysterical - well, 51% hysterical. lol thanks for taking it and posting your results. very interesting!
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 37%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 63%
I’m not surprised and this was fun! As for guessing about you, in general I would say male as well unless the posts you visit about women’s issues tip the scale lol
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 55%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 45%
Most likely would have been different if The Professor hadn’t lured me to Facebook!
All of us should be close to 50 percent, don’t you think?
Rosemary oh no does that mean I’m not really female???? lolol
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 37%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 63%
Same results as Carole, though mine got it right. Whew…now I can continue visiting the Cosmo site without feeling like I’ve compromised my masculinity.
LOL @ Scott.
you’ve compromised your masculinity by being a democrat.
Joe: Wrong. Registered Republican for many years, now an independent. Thank you for playing, though.
My results (as of today):
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 35%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 65%
I don’t know about you Jill, but I think our results say we broke the glass ceiling, on the Internet anyway
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 57%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 43%
I took that test the other day, and my results came out as 50% male, 50% female. Gender division, anyone?
I read somewhere that the algorithm may lean heavy, not on purpose, on shopping or purchasing, using the internet to buy things. And that women often do that task/chore/obsession/pleasure (I do it for utility - and I only do it when absolutely necessary lol).
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 73%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 27%
wrong….so very wrong…
Unless you shop a lot, Mark.