Gender Test

[andrewducker]

I'm curious:
Go here and spend 30 seconds choosing some photos. Then come back and fill in the poll...
[Poll #1471192]

Comments

[feorag.livejournal.com]

It crashed after the first picture!

[andrewducker]

How odd. Working fine for me in FF on Windows. Seems odd that it'd be doing something so complex that a Mac would have problems.

[meihua.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for reinforcing the gender binary. Extra hurrah for:

- Men like construction
- Women like babies
- Men like pictures of women (because all men are straight)
- Women prefer pictures of people, men prefer pictures of things

What utter tosh.

[andrewducker]

It presents a bunch of pictures. It then makes a guess at what gender you are. It then alters itself depending on whether it was right or not. It's a very simple bit of AI code. If it reinforces anything, it's what its users tell it...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Male -> 86% female. I would have *thought* it would work fairly well even if it was quite simple, but apparently not.

[mooism.livejournal.com]

Male → 96% female.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

"there is a 50% chance that you are male".

Um. Riiight.

[andrewducker]

How much more conclusive do you want?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

(via friendsfriends)

It suggested 56% male for me. This is possibly because I don't like children very much.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

The quiz was 84% certain that I had outside plumbing, which was correct.

-- Steve's surprised at the number of misses the poll's reporting on males, though given some of the selections of photos maybe he shouldn't be.

There's a

[recycled-sales.livejournal.com]

53% chance that I'm female

:(


oh and in the test

[headinclouds.livejournal.com]

Seems to think there is a 64% chance I'm male.

[dougs.livejournal.com]

In IE8 on Vista (for me) it crashes consistently after the first pair of pictures. In Firefox, it crashes after the first pair of pictures half the time, before the first pair of pictures almost half the time, and in the few remaining cases it only shows me one of the two pictures, and then crashes.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

It switched my browser off when I confirmed it was wrong.

[cybik.livejournal.com]

I did it five times because I don't want to start packing was interested. Three times it thought female (70%+ each time), the other two times it though male (about 65%).

I think the times it thought I was male there were more pictures of children, which I didn't click.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

It was 95% sure I'm male. It's a smidgen worse than chance, so either folks from your flist are weird or the premise of the test is wrong. Or there's a small chance of a random effect.

I didn't have a strong preference in a lot of the photo pairs.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

81% female, apparently.

I'd like to know which clustering algorithm they're using; either it's overfitting, or they've used some bad training examples.

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

There's an 85% chance I'm male. (Perhaps it's a boy and that's confusing matters?)

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

76% chance I'm a woman, apparently.

[sneerpout.livejournal.com]

It believes that there is a 71 per cent chance that I'm male.

Perhaps it is right.

[sterlingspider.livejournal.com]

85% chance male apparently. *shrugs*

I think it would be funnier if it just told everyone there was a 49.76% chance that they were female.

[beachpsalms.livejournal.com]

75% chance of male... which I'm really not. *shores up femme credentials*

[neferet.livejournal.com]

96% male apparently; although I've 'volunteered' for stuff along the same lines as this before, usually with the same result, so at least there's consistency :)

[soon_lee]

It thought there was a 67% chance I was female. Bzzzztt!

Mind you, http://genderanalyzer.com/ thinks I'm female too. But only just.

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

That one thinks I'm 62% male... and apparently gets the results right 64% of the time...

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Gee, thanks. Not only did it make an 87% guess that I was female, but clicking "no" at the end shit my damned browser down. Colour me unimpressed.

[communicator.livejournal.com]

It guessed I was female at a higher probability than any of your other commenters. I think it was 97%. Which is strange because I expect I come across as more tomboy-ish and macho than 97% of women, so who knows?

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

Said there was a 99% chance I was female.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

94% female

I went on artistic merit (as perceived by me) - but there was at least one shot where the choice was between cra@p and cra@p and a couple where one was out of focus so that was never getting a vote.

Maybe that IS 'girly' :-)

[xquiq.livejournal.com]

I thought the same - in one of the tests I did, the more steretypically masculine preferences were rubbish shots.

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

Pressed the wrong clicky! I meant female and wrong! Can I change it?

[andrewducker]

Yup. Click on the link at the top of the results...

[lpetrazickis.livejournal.com]

male - 67% male

Would have been more interesting if it showed which of my choices were non-conventional.