A very simple kind of artificial intelligence

[andrewducker]

This page attempts to work out your gender from what sites you browse.  Apparently I'm 72% likely to be male and 28% likely to be female.  Which sounds about right.

It's purely based on statistical analysis of what genders go to what sites more often - but it amused me.

[Poll #1231540]

(cheers for the original link go to henriksdal)

Comments

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

On my laptop:
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 53%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 47%

I imagine my work computer would be more male though...

at work, though that's pretty representative

[diotina.livejournal.com]

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 38%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 62%

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

I am 60% male. About right, really. Looks like my browsing matches my endocrinology results:-)

[cdave]

Firefox thinks I'm: FEMALE 41% MALE 59%

I.E. 50% 50%
Does not know me at all :)

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Is a remote site supposed to be able to get at my browser history?

[andrewducker]

It certainly can if you activate javascript to give it to it:
function startAnalysis()
{
user = SocialHistory();
var listOfVisitedSites = user.visitedSites();
document.getElementById('analyze').style.display='block';
document.getElementById('analyze').src="http://www.mikeonads.com/gender/analyze.php?sites="+listOfVisitedSites;
}

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

That's really quite worrying.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

OK, they can only really check whether you've been to a named site by looking at whether a link to the base URL of that site is "visited" or not, rather than actually retrieving a list of where you've been. But it's still got quite a lot of potential for abuse.

[andrewducker]

Okay - the code looked to me like it was calling a URL with the list of sites you've visited. s that not right?

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

No, it creates an iframe and puts the URLs in there, then sees whether they're formatted as "visited" or "unvisited" links.

[andrewducker]

Aaah - that's what SocialHistory() does! Gotcha.

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

I got the site through this article in The Register, highlighting that very point!

[erindubitably.livejournal.com]

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 95%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 5%

I swear, you go to one shoe site...

[recycled-sales.livejournal.com]

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 1%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 99%

Well that's pretty much sussed it ;)

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Same result for me :-)

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

It said 60% female for me, which surprised me as I'm on my work machine, most of the history is techy articles, reference guides etc. But I guess it was only looking at a certain subset of sites so maybe not so weird.

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

It probably says more about you FL ;)

[e-halmac.livejournal.com]

Interesting - 51% likely to be female and 49% likely to be male. Not what I might have expected, but then most of the sites I use didn't appear on the list.

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

51% male, 49% female at work. Might want to try this at home.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I got 97% chance of being female which seemed odd. The vast majority of the sites I was listed for are mostly male, or nearly so.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

How far would the inclusion or exclusion of pron sites skew the results I wonder?

[atreic.livejournal.com]

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 52%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 48%

I don't think it learnt very much...

[avatar.livejournal.com]

The female/it thought male results don't surprise me. It feels very lucky-guess.

[wychwood]

71% male - which is not bad for a woman who has Mostly Been Reading LJ the last two days!

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

I'm 100% female, and now I can prove it!

[dapperscavenger.livejournal.com]

I need another option.
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 50%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 50%

[rwrylsin.livejournal.com]

50:50 split on the home machine, where's the snowflake poll option? :)

(51% female on the work laptop though)

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But my ma won't admit it
I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But if I say I am I get it

[matgb]

Hello husband!

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 49%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 51%


Site Male-Female Ratio
myspace.com
0.74
amazon.com
0.9
blogger.com
1.06
bbc.co.uk
1.44

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

* snuggles wife *

Love you, sweetcheeks.

[zz]

my ad blocker doesn't like the domain ending in "ads", and i can't be bothered setting an exclusion. :>

[babydyke-82.livejournal.com]

oh my god- 70% man! uurgh! Too much youtube/ porn/ imdb/ porn/ free tetris!

[darkoshi]

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 98%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 2%

Interestingly, these are the sites I got with the highest and lowest male/female ratios:

tigerdirect.com 2.23
plannedparenthood.org 0.5

And then there's... hmm...
livejournal.com 0.68

[likeneontubing.livejournal.com]

at home
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 61%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 39%

at work it was 50/50 slightly in favour of being female - i forget the actual numbers

[wordofblake.livejournal.com]

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 58%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 42%

w00t