Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name
Vincent Bernat <bernat@luffy.cx> writes:
> On 2022-07-14 17:14, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> (Also, due to the limitations and history of naming conventions, the
>> software is inherently trying to map into a gender binary, which if one
>> is attempting to capture self-identification is likely to be unhelpful
>> for many populations, such as ones with lots of people under 30, due to
>> not having a way to represent nonbinary people.)
> This one does not. It maps a first name to male, female, androgynous,
> mostly make, mostly female, or unknown.
Oh, is that what "andy" in the output meant? I thought that was some
other quirk of the software, but in retrospect I should have figured that
out.
Thanks for the correction. Androgynous and nonbinary are not really the
same thing, but at least the software is trying to incorporate that, to
the extent that people's names reflect their gender at all.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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