Comments on: Am I a boy or a girl?

Am I a boy or a girl?

empath — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:53:39 -0800

If you're like me, you've often forgotten what gender you are and wished you had a convenient way for your web browser to tell you. Well, look no further.

By: furtive

furtive — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:59:22 -0800

The angle of dangle is given By the throb of the knob. It's driven By the heat of the meat, As a function un-discrete. Oh, and a big yay for JavaScript being able to affirm my sexuality.

By: furtive

furtive — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:59:41 -0800

...er make that gender.

By: WPW

WPW — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:02:10 -0800

Interesting. I'm 24% female. That sounds about right.

By: Fuzzy Skinner

Fuzzy Skinner — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:02:17 -0800

93% chance I am male. (I am.) It doesn't know I cried at Must Love Dogs, Serendipity, and The Hours.

By: painquale

painquale — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:05:41 -0800

The male-to-female ratio of Metafilter users is 1.27:1, apparently.

By: box

box — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:07:16 -0800

74% likelihood I'm female (I'm not).

By: fluffy battle kitten

fluffy battle kitten — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:07:36 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 50% Likelihood of you being MALE is 50% I think that's actually a fair assessment considering I'm not a girly girl and tend towards being tom boyish. The results were better than I was expecting, anyhow.

By: Xurando

Xurando — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:08:23 -0800

53% female and lovin it.

By: Nattie

Nattie — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:09:39 -0800

60% male. (I'm not, hah.)

By: matthewr

matthewr — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:12:23 -0800

98% male. Oh yes. Would have been off the charts if I'd visited Slashdot recently.

By: andihazelwood

andihazelwood — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:18:38 -0800

97% male?!? I'm a girl! Really, girls don't like news, financial information, musical instruments, photography equipment and Firefox?

By: Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America

Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:20:16 -0800

97% male?!? I'm a girl! Stop looking at so much porn.

By: betaray

betaray — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:20:58 -0800

I am 100% man. The ideal for the rest of you to live up to. The least manly website I've been to recently is petsmart.com at 0.77, but that's more than made up for by tomshardware.com with giant, throbbing, Y chromosome score of 2.33.

By: TheophileEscargot

TheophileEscargot — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:21:55 -0800

I'm much more male than last time I did this. Thanks, Slashdot! Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 17% Likelihood of you being MALE is 83% Site Male-Female Ratio google.com 0.98 youtube.com 1 apple.com 0.89 metafilter.com 1.27 salon.com 1.13 amazon.co.uk 1.11 theonion.com 1.2 thesun.co.uk 1.7 slashdot.org 1.74

By: freshwater_pr0n

freshwater_pr0n — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:24:20 -0800

Before I clicked, I half-consciously assumed that Mikeonads.com was a play on "my gonads." You know, gender, gonads, haha. No, it's Mike on ads. And I'm all man, baby, 100%. My heterosexual boyfriend is going to get a BIG suprise tonight!

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:26:06 -0800

I'm 98% female. With gazongas and high heels, no less.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:28:51 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 3% Likelihood of you being MALE is 97% Huh, I guess Metafilter IS a boyzone.

By: yort

yort — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:29:47 -0800

amtrak.com 0.75 (huh?) sprint.com 0.77 (?) netflix.com 0.79 (wow!) ziprealty.com 0.8 (all the real estate ladies?) orbitz.com 0.83 wamu.com 0.85 apple.com 0.89 (hah!) yamaha-motor.com 1.44 (that all?) crutchfield.com 1.94 (hah!) tdameritrade.com 2.08 (sad) leftlanenews.com 2.23

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:30:05 -0800

58% Female. It was celebrity-babies dot com (with a Male-Female ratio of .52) that revealed my ovaries to the machine. The rest of the sites I visit are much more masculine. I think if I'd done this analysis on the computer I spend more time on, it would probably register my femininity percentage much higher, since that's the one that has icanhascheezburger and KittenWar bookmarked. (Don't judge me. I'm a sucker for small, squishy mammals.)

By: The Great Big Mulp

The Great Big Mulp — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:30:19 -0800

88% chance I'm a female. Finally, I have bested the machines!

By: saffry

saffry — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:33:05 -0800

I think it would have been listed as male if I hadn't visited Etsy to answer an Askme today.

By: badmoonrising

badmoonrising — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:34:17 -0800

Well, I came out at 100% female. I'm slightly surprised by this - especially since I spent most of my time on here and at Amazon, which are apparently both male-heavy! Maybe it senses I'm wearing a dress today... Oh well. At least I wasn't 100% male.

By: emelenjr

emelenjr — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:34:44 -0800

First test I ever got a 100 on. My parents would be so proud.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:36:08 -0800

Actually those stats were from Safari. Doing it as Firefox, they're : Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 25% Likelihood of you being MALE is 75% Opera: Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 44% Likelihood of you being MALE is 56% Clearly, there are issues to resolve.

By: athenian

athenian — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:37:40 -0800

The FT's massive male skew meant it thought I was male with 95% probability. And I am.

By: AsYouKnow Bob

AsYouKnow Bob — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:38:45 -0800

My wife uses this machine a lot. (Yeah - that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.) Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 30% Likelihood of you being MALE is 70% I'm sure that if I got the girl cooties out of this computer's cookies, it would duly report my actual Likelihood of you being MALE is 110%

By: threadbare

threadbare — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:42:41 -0800

Furtive, equasion var: The angle of the dangle is equal to the heat of the meat, times the cube of the tube, divided by the square of the hair. And, Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 44%, Likelihood of you being MALE is 56%. I must do more shopping!

By: kimdog

kimdog — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:44:00 -0800

74% female (I am). If I hadn't been shopping for shoes earlier today, I bet I would have been closer to gender neutral.

By: Bahro

Bahro — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:47:05 -0800

Highest male-female ratio site I visited: digikey.com with 2.70. Lowest was greyhound.com with 0.72. Interesting how tranportation sites (Orbitz, Amtrak, Greyhound) tend to have low female:male ratios. I wonder why that would be.

By: lleachie

lleachie — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:47:52 -0800

88% male. Uhh, no. Just technologically savvy, is all.

By: Hands of Manos

Hands of Manos — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:48:27 -0800

this reminds me to clear my browsing history

By: Zambrano

Zambrano — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:49:01 -0800

That's good. Create a blog that makes IE users lock up their computers. I guess he doesn't want 99% of the population viewing his blog.

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:51:40 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 42% Likelihood of you being MALE is 58% Seems about right.

By: lilkeith07

lilkeith07 — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:56:33 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 11% Likelihood of you being MALE is 89% phew, thats the hardest test I've had to pass since High School

By: reflecked

reflecked — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:59:00 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 10% Likelihood of you being MALE is 90% 90% Fail.

By: danb

danb — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:01:33 -0800

I'm 83% male. Probably would have been significant lower if not for all the video game websites (escapistmagazine.com: 2.08; kotaku.com: 1.94). Clever idea.

By: decagon

decagon — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:02:09 -0800

Um. I think I'm the first guy here to get a verdict of 100% female. awkward

By: wreckingball

wreckingball — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:02:59 -0800

jezebel.com 1.02 wait, what?

By: Quietgal

Quietgal — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:13:07 -0800

Only 62% female. I never was very good at being a girl.

By: supermedusa

supermedusa — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:14:56 -0800

I was surprised to score 94% female. I am female, but don't tend to think of myself as particularly girly. I guess those daily visits to cute overload & perez hilton are more damning than I'd imagined...

By: grippycat

grippycat — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:18:28 -0800

Heh. I knew I was a weird, nerdy girl - never knew I was 98% male! Maybe that explains some things....

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:18:47 -0800

Can someone explain where the equation that calculates the likelihood of being a male or female comes from?

By: peacheater

peacheater — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:22:01 -0800

98 % chance of being female for me (I am). But my boyfriend got 97 % chance of being male too! I guess he needs to start browsing more manly sites.

By: tula

tula — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:25:45 -0800

It even can't tell I'm female, it's to busy "working", and has basically become totally unresponsive. Fucking typical.

By: dirigibleman

dirigibleman — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:27:17 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 0% Likelihood of you being MALE is 100% If it hadn't been for zappos.com, I'd have been, like, 140% male.

By: small_ruminant

small_ruminant — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:30:10 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 51% (I am) Likelihood of you being MALE is 49% I'd have thought the 45 minutes I blew (heh heh) this morning reading orsm and myredbook reviews (I swear- they're addicting!) would have pushed me toward the male end, but it didn't notice those for some reason. (icanhazcheezburger is 1.04?)

By: saturnine

saturnine — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:32:48 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 12% Likelihood of you being MALE is 88% I am female. The first time I did it, the Male percentage was 84%. Maybe it's trying to tell me something. Tomorrow I am wearing a dress dammit.

By: 445supermag

445supermag — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:33:45 -0800

All I got was an "unresponsive script" error, now I'll never know...

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:34:02 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 100% Likelihood of you being MALE is 100% Wait, what? Figures.

By: tula

tula — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:35:30 -0800

christ, *too* busy. That's what I get for trying to be clever too urgently.

By: betterton

betterton — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:35:30 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 54% Likelihood of you being MALE is 46% Interesting.

By: knave

knave — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:38:25 -0800

I must be stupid, but I can't believe someone can write a Javascript script to get this information. Seems like a real violation of privacy. 99% male.

By: Punkey

Punkey — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:42:37 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 0% Likelihood of you being MALE is 100% All that bear wrestling and street racing paid off, baby. io9.com was my highest male-to-female ratio website with 2.33, anyone get anything higher?

By: 445supermag

445supermag — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:44:37 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 8% Likelihood of you being MALE is 92% Site Male-Female Ratio yahoo.com 0.9 ebay.com 1.11 mapquest.com 0.83 craigslist.org 1.13 imdb.com 1.06 digg.com 1.56 sears.com 0.98 fedex.com 1.06 drudgereport.com 2.08 pbskids.org 0.96 wired.com 1.41 metafilter.com 1.27 tracfone.com 0.8 boingboing.net 1.5 starfall.com 0.96 sportsmansguide.com 1.74 freecycle.org 0.57 summitracing.com 1.67 OK, so it got me, but this computer is used more by my wife and kids than me. Just checking the headlines on drudge and getting a price on some parts at summit racing really skews it.

By: TheOnlyCoolTim

TheOnlyCoolTim — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:44:45 -0800

So this quantcast is very unclear on how they collect the data (spyware?) but I would imagine some biases due to the collection process.

By: pised

pised — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:56:28 -0800

I'm interested in how it picks up on what sites you're visiting. One of the sites I visit multiple times a day didn't come up, and a site that I've maybe visited once (for what, I don't recall). Considering the former is a knitting site, which would almost definitely skew female, I wonder what effect it would have had on my ratio (which did not predict my gender accurately).

By: workerant

workerant — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:59:40 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 23% Likelihood of you being MALE is 77% I am female. Oh well.

By: liquorice

liquorice — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:01:47 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 17% Likelihood of you being MALE is 83% I knew it all along! My websites seem so "average" (news sites, youtube, gmail, mefi), what would you have to be looking at to be considered female?

By: Miko

Miko — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:03:24 -0800

Damn, I just cleared my cache yesterday, so this isn't even representative. But I'm in the androgyny zone with a 39% male, 61% female. This is entirely due to the fact that I visited Etsy, too, which has a ratio of 0.44 female. My other sites skewed male. And that's without any porn in the browsing history. I may secretly be a man.

By: Miko

Miko — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:05:00 -0800

what would you have to be looking at to be considered female? Good question, very good question (obviously etsy is one. I found it interesting that travel and banking sites skew female; this, to me, is a reflection of the reality that in families, women take on a majority of the schedule and financial planning). Does he provide a list of ratios for major sites? And how is this ratio determined? Does he say? Headed back to check.

By: jamaro

jamaro — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:05:25 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 19% Likelihood of you being MALE is 81% and not able to hike a mile in heels.

By: localroger

localroger — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:09:08 -0800

96% male. But not surprising considering I'm a tech rat. WTF with DigiKey.com 2.8 weighting? Only guys order parts?

By: schroedinger

schroedinger — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:09:34 -0800

Likelihood of being male is 76%. I'm female. The bondage-at-truck-rallies porn must've thrown it off.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:10:34 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 73% Likelihood of you being MALE is 27% WTF? *waves penis at site* Dude, I'm way too ugly to be a woman.

By: The Light Fantastic

The Light Fantastic — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:13:38 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 47% Likelihood of you being MALE is 53% I'm very unlikely to be a male.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:13:44 -0800

I may secretly be a man. posted by Miko and apparently, I may secretly be a woman. Is anyone else hearing sixteen hooves coming down the street, or is that just me?

By: CKmtl

CKmtl — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:15:17 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 45% Likelihood of you being MALE is 55% Alot of the sites in my list lean slightly toward male, except for this: myalli.com 0.39 ... which I googled up to see what the hell it was after seeing an ad for it on TV. Curiosity shrank my e-statistical penis. Also, apparently women are more likely to buy used books or go to libraries: amazon.ca 1.04 vs. powells.com 0.85 worldcat.org 0.83

By: The Light Fantastic

The Light Fantastic — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:15:43 -0800

Is anyone else hearing sixteen hooves coming down the street, or is that just me? They just passed my place, Death says "Hi."

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:19:21 -0800

Well, it's a good think I don't wear pants at the computer, because this thing is completely useless. Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 58% Likelihood of you being MALE is 42% Male-Female Ratio myspace.com 0.74 slate.com 1.11 metafilter.com 1.27 zabasearch.com 0.69

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:21:28 -0800

They just passed my place, Death says "Hi." Tell Famine that his mother's worried. He looks like he's not eating.

By: poppo

poppo — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:30:03 -0800

Seriously? You're all just clicking a random button on the internet that lets someone's website do something to your computer?

By: ambrosia

ambrosia — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:33:15 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 49% Likelihood of you being MALE is 51% I would have thought that the last few days of surfing the breastfeeding moms sites would have tipped it a little further over to the XX side. **waves at small ruminant and remember that conversation we had at a meetup about that shoe store in Berkeley we love to hate**

By: chiababe

chiababe — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:36:03 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 0% Likelihood of you being MALE is 100% But I have a vagina. :( The computer my husband uses gave these results: Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 1% Likelihood of you being MALE is 99% What does that mean about our relationship?

By: Dumsnill

Dumsnill — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:41:00 -0800

99 % male I liked to draw horses. I bleached my hair. I read Nancy Drew. Fuck.

By: Solon and Thanks

Solon and Thanks — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:01:55 -0800

It is 69% likely I am a female (which I am.) It would probably be lower if I didn't like internet shopping so much. Hmm.

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:08:18 -0800

Zambrano: "That's good. Create a blog that makes IE users lock up their computers. I guess he doesn't want 99% of the population viewing his blog." IE is only at 65% of the market right now.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:08:23 -0800

Likelihood of you being MALE is 100% Damn straight. *revs motorcycle*

By: Pater Aletheias

Pater Aletheias — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:08:33 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 37% Likelihood of you being MALE is 63% My 37% female side is mainly because of my credit card sites and Papa John's pizza. I hadn't previously thought of debt or pepperoni as particularly girly--now I know.

By: TheOnlyCoolTim

TheOnlyCoolTim — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:22:50 -0800

Yep, the data seems to be spyware-based and also is bullshit.

By: fijiwriter

fijiwriter — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:23:40 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 73% Likelihood of you being MALE is 27% Guess that explains a lot of the laughs around the office.

By: LoriFLA

LoriFLA — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:24:33 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 100% Likelihood of you being MALE is 0% I do have a lot of online retailers in my history. I mostly window shop, I swear! Funny how I'm 100 percent female. RotoWorld and some other "male" sites are in my history.

By: Dumsnill

Dumsnill — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:30:37 -0800

99 prosent? Mann? Fortell det til alle bøllene som mobbet meg fordi jeg hadde langt, bleket hår og rosa sykkel...(Men jeg likte å tegne hester...)

By: borkencode

borkencode — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:17:56 -0800

98% male, which I am. Some of my top female sites were: coldstonecreamery.com 0.61 bravotv.com 0.44 barackobama.com 0.68 My most male centric site was pricewatch.com 2.77 So we can conclude women love ice cream, Ted Allen, and Barack, and hate checking prices on technology.

By: gingerbeer

gingerbeer — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:26:46 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 43% Likelihood of you being MALE is 57% I'm not a guy, I just play one on the internet? And I'm also baffled at the jezebel 1.02 ratio.

By: caddis

caddis — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:27:24 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 3% Likelihood of you being MALE is 97% Site Male-Female Ratio youtube.com 1 cnn.com 1.35 imdb.com 1.06 digg.com 1.56 drudgereport.com 2.08 huffingtonpost.com 1.35 wired.com 1.41 metafilter.com 1.27 boingboing.net 1.5 gawker.com 1.17 statesman.com 1.06 dailykos.com 1.56 Busted.

By: Meagan

Meagan — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:32:02 -0800

According to that site, I'm 99% male, but in reality I'm 100% female. It's all the technology and tech news sites.

By: !Jim

!Jim — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:36:44 -0800

I must be stupid, but I can't believe someone can write a Javascript script to get this information. Seems like a real violation of privacy I was wondering this too, but it says on the top of the site. Basically, what it does is creates a link to a website. If you've visited the site (or the site's homepage at least), your browser gives the link a CSS pseudo-class of "visited". Since javascript can access the DOM, it can also access these pseudo-classes. This type of functionality (usually done in CSS) is what allows sites to change the color of a link based on whether you've visited it or not.

By: GavinR

GavinR — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:46:45 -0800

100% chance it crashed my browser

By: selfmedicating

selfmedicating — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:55:21 -0800

If you've visited the site (or the site's homepage at least), your browser gives the link a CSS pseudo-class of "visited". But there is no accounting for how many times you've visited. So the fact that I visit metafilter 800 times a day doesn't make me any less womanly.

By: TheOnlyCoolTim

TheOnlyCoolTim — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:55:22 -0800

And I'm also baffled at the jezebel 1.02 ratio. Can everyone please stop being baffled? These statistics have a great big dose of FAIL, BIAS, AND LIES.

By: thatbrunette

thatbrunette — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:25:05 -0800

95% male, and I am definitely female. I wonder what he thinks girls are supposed to look at? My preferred sites deal with science, finance, and Metaf... oh.

By: Weighted Companion Cube

Weighted Companion Cube — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:26:19 -0800

Likelihood of you being A CUBE is 100%

By: humannaire

humannaire — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:52:59 -0800

49% female 51% male ....and I'm taking what they're givin cause I'm workin' for a livin'!

By: jrochest

jrochest — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:17:27 -0800

So wrong. So, so, so wrong.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:28:08 -0800

Well, seems I probably got pegged as a woman 'cuz I was selling stuff on ebay.

By: girandole

girandole — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:56:06 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 21% Likelihood of you being MALE is 79% I didn't realize I was so butch.

By: melissam

melissam — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:00:25 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 10% Likelihood of you being MALE is 90% FAIL

By: autodidact

autodidact — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:37:38 -0800

86% male, and I notice it didn't use the porn sites.

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:21:13 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 50% Likelihood of you being MALE is 50% Maybe the hermaphrodite fisting videos thew it off.

By: darksasami

darksasami — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:34:06 -0800

Interesting thing: the javascript doesn't seem to be able to find items in your history unless you've been to the front page of the sites. While I had gone to Jezebel from the recent link about shoes, it didn't show up until I manually visited http://www.jezebel.com. For that reason, it had me at 67% male until I tried going to the front pages of roamans.com, payless.com, and zappos.com -- all places I'd recently been shopping, but which weren't on the list on my first try. After that it said 100% female. I'm technically male, but you know, whatever.

By: crinklebat

crinklebat — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:27:26 -0800

Amusingly, on my work computer I was 50/50 exactly, and on my home computer I'm 100% woman. I suspect this is because I'm a software engineer at work, and at home I'm planning a wedding.

By: wastelands

wastelands — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:30:16 -0800

Woohoo! 99% male. (I am.) Least male site: match.com at 0.80. Most male site: newegg.com at 2.23, but it looks like borkencode has got us all beat for most manly site.

By: imperium

imperium — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:48:24 -0800

So, seriously, this guy knows our browsing history, and all we're worried about is how dubious his stats are? I'm personally not that intrigued to be told something (inaccurately) that almost everyone here could establish pretty accurately by examining their own crotches. (for all except transgender folk) Nor am I impressed to learn that men visit motorbike websites more and women visit real estate sites more.

By: Amanda B

Amanda B — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:14:43 -0800

100% female. I feel like online shopping at places like Sephora and Saks Fifth Avenue called me out.

By: ArkhanJG

ArkhanJG — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:56:55 -0800

Woah. Paul Cook figured out a way to reverse engineer (roughly) our browsing history based on the basis of the 'visited' flag for on-site URLs, freely handed over by your browser, and the best use for it is to compare those sites to a crappy adware-derived database tied to sex? This is an advertiser's wetdream, once they figure out and fix why the script is so slow in IE. Anyone on any website, can know with 80% certainty, what sites you've also visited since you last cleared your cache+history. They can do that already, to an extent, by using 3rd-party cookies and web-bug 3rd-party ad-images - but largely only on sites already part of their advert network. By blocking 3rd party cookies and blacklist ad-hosting domains, you could block most of their tracking. Now they can pull up your history virtually at whim, regardless of that site's relationship to the adman, completely silently without anyway to block it that I can see, and alter the adverts you receive based upon that information. Remember the personal advertising in Minority Report? Now it's based on whether you're male, female, middle class, 26-35, a democrat... Now lets get creepier. Imagine websites knowing what news sites you go to and working out your political affiliation - and changing the actual article you see based on that. I've seen some scary ass profiling tools in my time, but this is a nasty one, because I can't see any way to block it user-side, without blocking the sites you actually visit in the first place. I'll do some digging, because I'll be very surprised if this isn't already in use by some very unsavoury people.

By: Bokononist

Bokononist — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:27:34 -0800

I've seen some scary ass profiling tools in my time, but this is a nasty one, because I can't see any way to block it user-side, without blocking the sites you actually visit in the first place. NoScript hasn't been mentioned in this thread yet? Oh, there, now it has.

By: ArkhanJG

ArkhanJG — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:35:25 -0800

I've used noscript. Turning off javascript universally breaks an awful lot of things on an awful lot of sites. But yes, fair point, if you can live with the inconvenience of default off, then noscript will work.

By: Vavuzi

Vavuzi — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:51:27 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 86% Likelihood of you being MALE is 14% Likelihood of you being GAY is off the friggin' chart. COME ON! Crateandbarrel.com AND containerstore.com?! What, was marthastewart.com totally down for repairs or in prison or something?! I don't like this test. It has attitude.

By: wundermint

wundermint — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:16:37 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 63% Likelihood of you being MALE is 37% I'm female... but I think reading io9 makes me seem like less of woman.

By: turgid dahlia

turgid dahlia — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:37:31 -0800

It didn't get my gender (23% Email Harvesting Bot, wtf?), but kudos for estimating that my profession is one of "Researcher into Human Sexuality, and also Midgets".

By: Blackadder

Blackadder — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:48:01 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 17% Likelihood of you being MALE is 83% EPIC FAIL. Oo, do you think it might be based on gender stereotypes?

By: NikitaNikita

NikitaNikita — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:47:52 -0800

100% female. Girliest site: petfinder.com (man, imagine if I had visited cuteoverload earlier this week? 120% GURL-EE.)

By: liza

liza — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:09:15 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 45% Likelihood of you being MALE is 55% had i done my victoria's secret shopping on this 'puter (which i did happen to do today on my other 'puter) my girly quotient would have been off the charts. oh well.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:46:51 -0800

My girliest site was target.com and my manliest was rotten.com. The IRS is female, btw. Greeeeat.

By: krinklyfig

krinklyfig — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:21:45 -0800

(This is a work computer, with the vast majority of history being local intranet sites) Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 38% Likelihood of you being MALE is 62% It disregards intranet sites, so this is based entirely on Metafilter, Newegg, Google and two bank sites, which is my whole history for today.

By: notashroom

notashroom — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:18:47 -0800

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 40% Likelihood of you being MALE is 60% Apparently girls don't go to geeks.com (2.33) or pricewatch.com (2.77! girls don't do price comparisons?) but do pay their credit card bills (capitalone.com 0.75, orchardbank.com 0.64, and creditonebank.com 0.77). Ten out of 21 sites it found for me were >=1:1, but those two first ones skewed the numbers enough to knock me down to just 40%.