Am I a boy or a girl?

August 2, 2008 2:53 PM

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.
posted by empath (113 comments total)

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.
posted by furtive at 2:59 PM on August 2, 2008

...er make that gender.
posted by furtive at 2:59 PM on August 2, 2008

Interesting. I'm 24% female. That sounds about right.
posted by WPW at 3:02 PM on August 2, 2008

93% chance I am male. (I am.)

It doesn't know I cried at Must Love Dogs, Serendipity, and The Hours.
posted by Fuzzy Skinner at 3:02 PM on August 2, 2008 [1 favorite]

The male-to-female ratio of Metafilter users is 1.27:1, apparently.
posted by painquale at 3:05 PM on August 2, 2008

74% likelihood I'm female (I'm not).
posted by box at 3:07 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by fluffy battle kitten at 3:07 PM on August 2, 2008

53% female and lovin it.
posted by Xurando at 3:08 PM on August 2, 2008

60% male. (I'm not, hah.)
posted by Nattie at 3:09 PM on August 2, 2008

98% male. Oh yes. Would have been off the charts if I'd visited Slashdot recently.
posted by matthewr at 3:12 PM on August 2, 2008

97% male?!? I'm a girl! Really, girls don't like news, financial information, musical instruments, photography equipment and Firefox?
posted by andihazelwood at 3:18 PM on August 2, 2008 [1 favorite]

97% male?!? I'm a girl!

Stop looking at so much porn.
posted by Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America at 3:20 PM on August 2, 2008 [3 favorites]

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.
posted by betaray at 3:20 PM on August 2, 2008 [3 favorites]

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
posted by TheophileEscargot at 3:21 PM on August 2, 2008

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!
posted by freshwater_pr0n at 3:24 PM on August 2, 2008

I'm 98% female. With gazongas and high heels, no less.
posted by miss lynnster at 3:26 PM on August 2, 2008

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 3%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 97%

Huh, I guess Metafilter IS a boyzone.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 3:28 PM on August 2, 2008

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
posted by yort at 3:29 PM on August 2, 2008

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.)
posted by grapefruitmoon at 3:30 PM on August 2, 2008

88% chance I'm a female.
Finally, I have bested the machines!
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 3:30 PM on August 2, 2008

I think it would have been listed as male if I hadn't visited Etsy to answer an Askme today.
posted by saffry at 3:33 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by badmoonrising at 3:34 PM on August 2, 2008

First test I ever got a 100 on. My parents would be so proud.
posted by emelenjr at 3:34 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 3:36 PM on August 2, 2008

The FT's massive male skew meant it thought I was male with 95% probability. And I am.
posted by athenian at 3:37 PM on August 2, 2008

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%
posted by AsYouKnow Bob at 3:38 PM on August 2, 2008

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!
posted by threadbare at 3:42 PM on August 2, 2008

74% female (I am). If I hadn't been shopping for shoes earlier today, I bet I would have been closer to gender neutral.
posted by kimdog at 3:44 PM on August 2, 2008

88% male. Uhh, no. Just technologically savvy, is all.
posted by lleachie at 3:47 PM on August 2, 2008

this reminds me to clear my browsing history
posted by Hands of Manos at 3:48 PM on August 2, 2008 [3 favorites]

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.
posted by Zambrano at 3:49 PM on August 2, 2008

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 42%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 58%

Seems about right.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 3:51 PM on August 2, 2008 [1 favorite]

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
posted by lilkeith07 at 3:56 PM on August 2, 2008

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

90% Fail.
posted by reflecked at 3:59 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by danb at 4:01 PM on August 2, 2008

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

awkward
posted by decagon at 4:02 PM on August 2, 2008

jezebel.com 1.02

wait, what?
posted by wreckingball at 4:02 PM on August 2, 2008 [2 favorites]

Only 62% female. I never was very good at being a girl.
posted by Quietgal at 4:13 PM on August 2, 2008

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...
posted by supermedusa at 4:14 PM on August 2, 2008

Heh. I knew I was a weird, nerdy girl - never knew I was 98% male! Maybe that explains some things....
posted by grippycat at 4:18 PM on August 2, 2008

Can someone explain where the equation that calculates the likelihood of being a male or female comes from?
posted by lukemeister at 4:18 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by peacheater at 4:22 PM on August 2, 2008

It even can't tell I'm female, it's to busy "working", and has basically become totally unresponsive. Fucking typical.
posted by tula at 4:25 PM on August 2, 2008 [1 favorite]

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.
posted by dirigibleman at 4:27 PM on August 2, 2008

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?)
posted by small_ruminant at 4:30 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by saturnine at 4:32 PM on August 2, 2008

All I got was an "unresponsive script" error, now I'll never know...
posted by 445supermag at 4:33 PM on August 2, 2008

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 100%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 100%


Wait, what? Figures.
posted by loquacious at 4:34 PM on August 2, 2008

christ, *too* busy. That's what I get for trying to be clever too urgently.
posted by tula at 4:35 PM on August 2, 2008

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

Interesting.
posted by betterton at 4:35 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by knave at 4:38 PM on August 2, 2008

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?
posted by Punkey at 4:42 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by 445supermag at 4:44 PM on August 2, 2008

So this quantcast is very unclear on how they collect the data (spyware?) but I would imagine some biases due to the collection process.
posted by TheOnlyCoolTim at 4:44 PM on August 2, 2008

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).
posted by pised at 4:56 PM on August 2, 2008

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 23%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 77%

I am female. Oh well.
posted by workerant at 4:59 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by Miko at 5:03 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by Miko at 5:05 PM on August 2, 2008

96% male. But not surprising considering I'm a tech rat. WTF with DigiKey.com 2.8 weighting? Only guys order parts?
posted by localroger at 5:09 PM on August 2, 2008

Likelihood of being male is 76%.

I'm female. The bondage-at-truck-rallies porn must've thrown it off.
posted by Anonymous at 5:09 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by jonmc at 5:10 PM on August 2, 2008

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 47%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 53%

I'm very unlikely to be a male.
posted by The Light Fantastic at 5:13 PM on August 2, 2008

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?
posted by jonmc at 5:13 PM on August 2, 2008

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
posted by CKmtl at 5:15 PM on August 2, 2008

Is anyone else hearing sixteen hooves coming down the street, or is that just me?

They just passed my place, Death says "Hi."
posted by The Light Fantastic at 5:15 PM on August 2, 2008

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
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 5:19 PM on August 2, 2008

They just passed my place, Death says "Hi."

Tell Famine that his mother's worried. He looks like he's not eating.
posted by jonmc at 5:21 PM on August 2, 2008

Seriously? You're all just clicking a random button on the internet that lets someone's website do something to your computer?
posted by poppo at 5:30 PM on August 2, 2008 [1 favorite]

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**
posted by ambrosia at 5:33 PM on August 2, 2008

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?
posted by chiababe at 5:36 PM on August 2, 2008

99 % male

I liked to draw horses. I bleached my hair. I read Nancy Drew.

Fuck.
posted by Dumsnill at 5:41 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by Solon and Thanks at 6:01 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by octothorpe at 6:08 PM on August 2, 2008

Likelihood of you being MALE is 100%

Damn straight.

*revs motorcycle*
posted by brundlefly at 6:08 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 6:08 PM on August 2, 2008

Yep, the data seems to be spyware-based and also is bullshit.
posted by TheOnlyCoolTim at 6:22 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by fijiwriter at 6:23 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by LoriFLA at 6:24 PM on August 2, 2008

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...)
posted by Dumsnill at 6:30 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by borkencode at 7:17 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by gingerbeer at 7:26 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by caddis at 7:27 PM on August 2, 2008

According to that site, I'm 99% male, but in reality I'm 100% female. It's all the technology and tech news sites.
posted by Meagan at 7:32 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by !Jim at 7:36 PM on August 2, 2008 [1 favorite]

100% chance it crashed my browser
posted by GavinR at 7:46 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by selfmedicating at 7:55 PM on August 2, 2008 [1 favorite]

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.
posted by TheOnlyCoolTim at 7:55 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by thatbrunette at 8:25 PM on August 2, 2008

Likelihood of you being A CUBE is 100%
posted by Weighted Companion Cube at 8:26 PM on August 2, 2008

49% female
51% male

....and I'm taking what they're givin cause I'm workin' for a livin'!
posted by humannaire at 8:52 PM on August 2, 2008

So wrong. So, so, so wrong.
posted by jrochest at 9:17 PM on August 2, 2008

Well, seems I probably got pegged as a woman 'cuz I was selling stuff on ebay.
posted by miss lynnster at 9:28 PM on August 2, 2008

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 21%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 79%

I didn't realize I was so butch.
posted by girandole at 9:56 PM on August 2, 2008

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

FAIL
posted by melissam at 10:00 PM on August 2, 2008

86% male, and I notice it didn't use the porn sites.
posted by autodidact at 10:37 PM on August 2, 2008

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 50%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 50%

Maybe the hermaphrodite fisting videos thew it off.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 11:21 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by darksasami at 11:34 PM on August 2, 2008

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.
posted by crinklebat at 12:27 AM on August 3, 2008

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.
posted by wastelands at 1:30 AM on August 3, 2008

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.
posted by imperium at 2:48 AM on August 3, 2008

100% female. I feel like online shopping at places like Sephora and Saks Fifth Avenue called me out.
posted by Amanda B at 3:14 AM on August 3, 2008

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.
posted by ArkhanJG at 3:56 AM on August 3, 2008

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.
posted by Bokononist at 7:27 AM on August 3, 2008

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.
posted by ArkhanJG at 10:35 AM on August 3, 2008

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.
posted by Vavuzi at 11:51 AM on August 3, 2008

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.
posted by wundermint at 12:16 PM on August 3, 2008

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".
posted by turgid dahlia at 3:37 PM on August 3, 2008

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?
posted by Blackadder at 5:48 PM on August 3, 2008

100% female. Girliest site: petfinder.com

(man, imagine if I had visited cuteoverload earlier this week? 120% GURL-EE.)
posted by NikitaNikita at 6:47 PM on August 3, 2008

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.
posted by liza at 7:09 PM on August 3, 2008

My girliest site was target.com and my manliest was rotten.com. The IRS is female, btw. Greeeeat.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 12:46 PM on August 4, 2008

(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.
posted by krinklyfig at 3:21 PM on August 4, 2008

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%.
posted by notashroom at 8:18 AM on August 28, 2008