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.