At 16:52 04-03-01 -0600, Julia wrote:
>One of my friends came across this in the last week:
>
>http://test3.thespark.com/gendertest/gender.cgi
>
>So far, our local sample of 5 women and 1 man has only a 33% accuracy
>rate. (3 women, including myself, came up as men; the 1 man came up as a
>woman; the remaining 2 women came up as women.) Once the test is over and
>they tell you what they think your gender is, there's a form for feedback
>-- did they get it right or not? Once you've submitted that, the next
>page you get to tells you how many people have taken the test, and that
>more testees will make the test more accurate.
>
>Since more men than women seem to participate here, I figured that this
>would be a good place to post the URL, as only 43% of the test-takers were
>male. (But I'd also be interested in how many women who associate with
>male SF fans come up with an erroneous result.) Also, Dan had a pretty
>good idea as to what sort of software they're using, and he declared that
>the sample size was too low so far. (If anyone else gets to the end of it
>and comes to the same conclusion independently, can I *please* have an
>explanation, at least as to what sort of software is being used? If not,
>I'll bug Dan about it sometime after my mother leaves on Wednesday....)
>
>Also, it might be amusing to see how accurate the test is for those on
>this list that participate. I don't want to see 50 messages in the next
>48 hours to the list simply declaring if the test was right or wrong, but
>I'd be happy to get 50 (or more) messages to my own personal inbox letting
>me know the accuracy of results, and then I could just post a general
>statement of accuracy. (This would use less bandwidth....) If anyone's
>just reading this on the web and isn't subscribed, you may not be able to
>see what my e-mail address is, but if you attempt to post your results to
>the list, I'll be 1 of just 2 people besides you getting the error message
>containing the original message, and the data will get to me that way.
>:) (But I'm hoping not to get buried in an avalance of 1000 error
>messages with info that way....)
Of course, if you need an on-line test to determine if you are male or
female, perhaps you need to spend less time on-line and more time
interaction with real people . . .
;-)
-- Ronn! :)
