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Tim
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34% Chance I'm Female Here I always thought I was a guy, maybe I'm not

I get daily emails about random things all over the internet. This one stuck out to me and I thought I'd give it a try. Turns out that some one figured out how to figure out your gender based on your web browsing habbits. Check it out for yourself:
http://www.mikeonads.com/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-history-estimate-gender/

It takes a minute or two for it to work from Internet Explorer, I guess it works faster from FireFox. But you'd have to use it to tell and well...I dont. Heres my results:

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 34%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 66%


Site Male-Female Ratio
google.com 0.98
msn.com 0.92
myspace.com 0.74
ebay.com 1.11
photobucket.com 0.85
imdb.com 1.06
weather.com 1.08
oldnavy.com 0.59
partsamerica.com 2.08
officelive.com 1.15
advanceautoparts.com 1.94

If the ratio was any more off I'd think I'd be having a case of gender confusion. Boy am I glad I've been looking at automotive sites lately or it really would have tipped the scale.

Posted by Tim on Jul 29 2008 11:02PM
The Daily WTF:
Because legacy application maintenance is one of the torments found in the outer circles of hell

Infoworld:
23. There is no such thing as a dumb question, so ask it ... once. Then write down the answer so that you don't have to ask it again. If you ask the same person the same question more than twice, you're an idiot (in their eyes).
Source: http://timmeers.net/u/dtryi

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LMAO so true........
Posted by Rachel on 7/30/2008 9:36:32 AM 
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Hmm that would be weird if I really was. Weird this is, my computer at work said 37% chance. I guess I'm more dude at home.
Posted by Tim on 7/31/2008 10:05:55 PM 
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