Weekend Fluff
Published by Lisa Kansas August 10th, 2008 in "Science", Dudes, Entertainment, For the ladiesI came across this via Bitch Ph.D:
Using your browser URL history to estimate gender
Oh yeah, I thought–it’s not like I frequent a bunch of G-I-R-L-Y sites–
Apparently I am more gendered than I thought though.
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 68%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 32%
Site Male-Female Ratio
google.com
0.98
yahoo.com
0.9
youtube.com
1
mapquest.com
0.83
photobucket.com
0.85
cnn.com
1.35
weather.com
1.08
merriam-webster.com
0.89
gmail.com
0.9
psychologytoday.com
0.63
The boyfriend came in at:
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 17%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 83%
Site Male-Female Ratio
google.com
0.98
yahoo.com
0.9
myspace.com
0.74
youtube.com
1
wikipedia.org
1.08
cnn.com
1.35
dell.com
1.04
washingtonpost.com
1.15
altavista.com
1.5
pandora.com
0.9
baltimoresun.com
1.2
thottbot.com
1.35
bbc.com
1.99
Fun stuff! 
WTF?!
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 100%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 0%
Site Male-Female Ratio
google.com
0.98
myspace.com
0.74
youtube.com
1
wikipedia.org
1.08
ebay.com
1.11
walmart.com
0.77
paypal.com
1.04
target.com
0.67
weather.com
1.08
yellowpages.com
0.72
whitepages.com
0.75
bestbuy.com
1.11
netflix.com
0.79
wellsfargo.com
0.87
gamespot.com
1.15
cheatcc.com
0.85
addictinggames.com
0.85
miniclip.com
0.92
gamestop.com
0.94
nick.com
0.79
isohunt.com
1.94
realtor.com
0.87
yellowbook.com
0.8
tagged.com
0.57
newgrounds.com
0.85
pizzahut.com
0.72
petsmart.com
0.59
charter.net
0.9
wowwiki.com
1.38
wowhead.com
2.03
dragonfable.com
0.89
armorgames.com
0.89
timewarnercable.com
0.82
akc.org
0.56
worldofwarcraft.com
1.08
gmail.com
0.9
americanpregnancy.org
0.72
charter.com
0.8
sonicdrivein.com
0.77
meez.com
0.44
calorieking.com
0.47
ALL those gaming sites have a female skew?
Aww, it won’t let me post my results what with the links and all. I got 100% female! WTF! and my sites are mostly like isohunt, google, worldofwarcraft, imeem, fstdt and wikipedia. I think it was the wellsfargo, target and olympics that might have kicked it over, but still…
I’m 68% male, which that ain’t right…and I can’t see how this deal is meant to work. Women check the weather and men read the news?
51% female, 49% male. That sounds about right.
Hmmm.
I got 50/50 but no site list…maybe it wasn’t working right.
I think most surprising is that CNN.com is pretty heavily gender-slanted. Wtf?
Thene, I think maybe you don’t browse the right sites.
My sitelist only had gmail and boingboing:
After I deleted BoingBoing since I’ve only ever read it a couple of times, I got.
Small sample size makes for wild guesses, clearly.
Or more likely I’m being stupid above and it was barely working for me either.