In case you’ve forgotten your gender…
and can’t get up … using the contents of your browsing history, this little script here can remind you.
I’m not liking the implications that this has for targeted advertising – it’s great for advertisers for sure, but for me, well, I have all the “feminist” toolboxes I need thank you very much…
Moving on, what makes a web site male or female? “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.”
Hmmm, not convinced. However… for fun… this is the analysis for me:
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 87%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 13%
Site Male-Female Ratio myspace.com 0.74 youtube.com 1 facebook.com 0.83 blogger.com 1.06 flickr.com 1.15 hotmail.com 0.83 greyhound.com 0.72 godaddy.com 1.17 etsy.com 0.44 stumbleupon.com 1.15 gmail.com 0.9 w3.org 1.27 lovemyflash.com 0.48
What have we learned today? Besides confirming that I am a chick, we’ve also discovered that ladies are more likely to travel by bus while the guys prefer to stumble around, and Youtube is the great equalizer.
In case you’ve forgotten your gender……
Have your browsing history analyzed to determine whether you’re a male for female… for fun….
Guilty of frequent stumbleupons!