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Title: Browsing History
Post by: Silver on March 22, 2010, 03:42:34 AM
http://www.mikeonads.com/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-history-estimate-gender/ (http://www.mikeonads.com/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-history-estimate-gender/)

I realized I should probably post my own results. . . so here:

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 15%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 85%
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: rejennyrated on March 22, 2010, 03:48:15 AM
Trouble is about 20 of us from my uni seminar group tried it for a laugh. It was pretty well 100% wrong.
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: Silver on March 22, 2010, 04:26:54 AM
Quote from: rejennyrated on March 22, 2010, 03:48:15 AM
Trouble is about 20 of us from my uni seminar group tried it for a laugh. It was pretty well 100% wrong.

Wow. Well, your uni group doesn't represent the average internet user (according to cnet.)
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: rejennyrated on March 22, 2010, 04:29:58 AM
Quote from: SilverFang on March 22, 2010, 04:26:54 AM
Wow. Well, your uni group doesn't represent the average internet user (according to cnet.)
I think part of the problem is that it categorises information biased sites like DailyTelegraph and BBC as MALE - and therefore in a group of academic students who are constantly looking at news and info sites they will tend to be wrongly classed as having male interests. Whilst it also tends to think social networking is female... and a lot of the boys on our course seemed to use those sites a lot...
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: Silver on March 22, 2010, 04:34:05 AM
Quote from: rejennyrated on March 22, 2010, 04:29:58 AM
I think part of the problem is that it categorises information biased sites like DailyTelegraph and BBC as MALE - and therefore in a group of academic students who are constantly looking at news and info sites they will tend to be wrongly classed as having male interests. Whilst it also tends to think social networking is female... and a lot of the boys on our course seemed to use those sites a lot...

Yep.
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: placeholdername on March 22, 2010, 05:54:36 AM
Guess right for me, though I can't figure out why:

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 81%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 19%

Which is weird because I actually visit a lot of "male-oriented" sites (coding and video games etc).
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: Jasmine.m on March 22, 2010, 08:23:18 AM
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 100%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 0%

Well hmmm.... I'm not sure if it's right or wrong! :P
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: rexgsd on March 22, 2010, 06:36:20 PM
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 50%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 50%
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: Pica Pica on March 22, 2010, 06:41:06 PM
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 40%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 60%

not so shabby... :icon_yes:
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: Kay on March 22, 2010, 06:46:03 PM
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 63%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 37%
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: fluffy jorgen on March 24, 2010, 09:58:58 AM
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 70%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 30%

Well, yeah, except that I don't only visit sites in English, so it's inaccurate. Boohoo.  :-X  :laugh:
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: Miniar on March 24, 2010, 10:26:39 AM
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 74%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 26%

... apparently, all artists are girls?
And looking at my history myself, I can't help but to notice the pornography and all the Icelandic research links and go "hmm... wonder why that's not listed"...

-.- stupid tool is stupid
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: Adio on March 24, 2010, 02:54:02 PM
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 100%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 0%

LOL  I guess looking for a new suit at a department store is feminine eh?  Apparently women also care more about volunteering, eating healthy, and surfing the web (google and yahoo).

Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: Janet_Girl on March 24, 2010, 05:18:31 PM
Just for chuckles I tried it .....

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 100%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 0%



Ya think.  ;D
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: Arch on March 24, 2010, 05:43:08 PM
I've had my browsing history analyzed by this guy before. If I recall correctly, none of my porn sites or sex toy sites or anything of that nature came up...and, funny thing, I got a much higher male rating before than now--I was either pre-transition or very early in transition when I first had my history analyzed.

ETA: this program clearly doesn't consider semi-tech sites like Fry's to be male, probably because they are commercial sites. My male ex goes to Fry's and Best Buy online all the time to compare prices, but I guess that's a girl activity. And the pro-military site I go to doesn't get counted at all...
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: Lachlann on March 24, 2010, 05:46:38 PM
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 2%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 98%
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: AmySmiles on March 24, 2010, 07:01:50 PM
I'm apparently very male because I've visited "software nerd" sites and open-source software sites.  Silly little test needs to take number of visits into account :P
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: Fenrir on March 24, 2010, 09:07:37 PM
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 56%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 44%

And that's relatively right, cool!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: hkgurl1480 on March 24, 2010, 10:18:30 PM
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 53%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 47%

meh

only picked up 6 of the sites i visit regularly....
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: HayleyVera on March 24, 2010, 10:27:48 PM
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 53%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 47%
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: Nathan. on March 25, 2010, 06:04:45 AM
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 49%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 51%
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: childofwinter on April 07, 2010, 07:36:23 PM
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 40%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 60%
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: LordKAT on April 07, 2010, 11:02:00 PM
Delete browsing history and it will say 50/50.

So mine says 50/50 now.
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: casorce on April 07, 2010, 11:15:12 PM
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 76%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 24%

swarovski.com will have tipped it over into the female realms.
Title: Re: Browsing History
Post by: Andii on April 08, 2010, 08:10:27 AM
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 50%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 50%

I would never have guessed....