Thursday, October 23, 2008

GWAP Can Guess Your Gender

You pick between 10 pairs of images and GWAP can tell if you're male or female! How does it work? Magic (and a bit of machine learning).

Try it here!

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

U didn't guess my gender.So it's not fail proof. That's for sure. LOL. Jenna

Paulo Ricca said...

lol.... I'm a boy and I tested it like 6 or 7 times and the system tells me I'm a female all the time :P
I'm not gay and I've also tryed to cheat the system choosing the most badass pictures... and it also sayd I was a female hehehe

shou I be worried?

Anonymous said...

I wish that the site would explain the trends in male-leaning photos versus female-preferred photos. It really cracked me up the very first time I played that on my 10th pair I had to choose between a wedding photo and a picture of Daniel Craig (the latest James Bond). But it always gets me right!

xenobiologista said...

From the computer's point of view, there is a 72% chance that I am male. Or, to phrase it more accurately, there is a 72% chance that a person who picked the same photos I did would be male.

I'm a girl ^_^

Anonymous said...

Basically as you go through and pick pictures, it takes a guess based on previous input, if you tell it that it was right, it places a greater "Gender" weighting on that picture.

If this is the case the first thousand tests would have been Wild guesses for calibration purposes. :P

Adam said...

I assume it uses the results from the Matchin' game.

Anonymous said...

But on the matching game you are picking for an unknow gender, not yourself.

Chasen said...

While interesting in concept, I have been a bit put off by the results of my tests. I am a heterosexual male and my results have definitively been >70% female each and every time. Maybe it is hard to judge gender based on a random selection of pictures.

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