What a Tangled Web…
Even computers can’t figure me out! I visited an online gender test at the coaxing of one of my best female friends and received very unsurprising results. [Annoyingly, the website now requires you to log in first before taking the test.]
Couldn’t I have at least been on one side of the fence or the other and not just right smack in the middle? Realizing that clams are alive makes me more female? The fact that I don’t want to die by drowning makes me more male? Well, at least at the end of the forty or so questions, it came back to me and said, “You are definitely a man!” Thank God for small miracles!
Next time I take a test, I’ll have to remember to study more beforehand…
I left several of the questions blank since they really didn’t seem answerable. (Better to ship by truck or boat? Depends where I’m shipping from and to.) And a few seemed too arbitrary (Even or odd year of birth?)
Is requiring clarity a male trait?
Anyway, it said I’m definitely male tipping in about a third of the way into the blue.
Being the QA’er that I am, I had to take it several times, of course. Two windows and exactly opposite answers. One as male as possible, one as female as possible. Result: 93% sure I’m male and 86% sure I’m female. Interesting disparity. Do women show more “masculine” traints than men show “feminine” traits. And if both sexes show the trait, how can it be considered “masculine” or “feminine”?
Final test was mixing the answers (Even answers are male, odd answers are female.) trying to get an “uncertain” result. It came out dead center in the chart and scale, but still decided I was definitely male.
I wonder if I did 2/3 of the answers female and 1/3 male…
I choose shipping by boat because I felt that trucking was too pollutive, probably a more female reason for choosing it. The arbitrariness of the year of birth is potentially reduced when considering the lower end of the computer-age demographics. Perhaps it is more likely that a boy born in 1992 would be online taking this survey than a girl. - RDL
I answered all the questions to my best knowledge and feeling at the time. The result was that I am definitely a woman. Oh, well. I guess I’ll have to start using the other restroom from now on.
Final check: I answered NONE of the questions. Left ‘em all blank. Apparently that makes me definitely a woman. Even more so than when I tried to answer in what I believed was a “feminine” manner.
Also interesting was the split on the graph between blue dots and pink dots. I would have expected a gradual shading from blue to pink, a neutral area. Yet there is a very clear gap right in the middle of the graph. (I wonder what the x and y coordinates represent. And what’s with the small group of men in the lower right corner?)
Wanting clear explanations; Isn’t that just like a man!
You both amuse me. Checked your site, Richard, wanting to find your definitive list of search engines. Sean had recited the list which I copied, but my list is becoming tattered and I’d thought I’d print out a fresh, and perhaps more complete list. Will continue to browse your site, because it is so much fun. Cheers! Carolyn Martin
Oh my god, she’s found me.
I took the test just out of curiosity. 80% female was the verdict. They were at least 80% incorrect. Yes I did take this just once being as honest as possible, and NO I am not gay.
It told me I was a unique individual that people can really understand what it means to be human from. What kind of çráp is that? lol
Annoyingly, the website now requires you to log in first before taking the test.