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Estimating Gender
By Natalie Hart
September 9th, 2008
Did you know that there’s a cool tool called Social History that will estimate your gender based on your browser URL history?
My favorite feature of this tool is how it breaks down by percentage how much of each genders’ browsing habits you exhibit, and correlates them to the results you receive. I cleared my browsing history and visited, what I though to be, a range of sites. Here are my results:
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 54%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 46%
| Site | Male-Female Ratio |
| youtube.com | |
| ebay.com | |
| craigslist.org | |
| apple.com | |
| nytimes.com | |
| perezhilton.com | |
| pandora.com |
Click here to find your own. How accurate is it with you?
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September 9th, 2008
2:20 pm
Check that link, it has an extra ‘http’ in it.
September 9th, 2008
2:28 pm
Thanks. I’ll change that ASAP.
September 9th, 2008
2:33 pm
There are 2 https in your link, Natalie (happens to me all the time with cut and paste)
Wow, I got 88% female – must be all the online stores I visit for my blogging research
September 9th, 2008
4:40 pm
What a cool tool! I tried it on both browsers IE and FF and although I got varying percentages, both leaned more towards male by a significant amount. Awesome stuff
September 10th, 2008
3:38 am
Ha ha!
“Likelihood of you being MALE is 99%”.
Damn do I feel extremely masculine for a change
September 10th, 2008
12:05 pm
I think this is really interesting and if can be used well is a browser bug worth keeping.
Peter Warden has extended it to get all the tags of the top sites and then build a tag cloud that profiles you.
http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2008/08/a-tag-cloud-for.html
September 10th, 2008
3:27 pm
According to them there’s a 100% actually a Female. Haha, well that’s interesting.
September 19th, 2008
4:56 am
83% male lol. That’s a great tool for marketing purposes.
April 5th, 2009
10:08 am
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 6%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 94%
I guess I need to go do something manly today to earn my other 6%!