The Gender\Gender class
    • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Only slightly though. It hardly seems practical to try and infer gender from names, in a way where it can’t be obtained through historical records, or the user.

      • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
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        4 months ago

        For a given individual, sure. If you’re trying to do some statistics over a whole group that you have no other record for, it could be useful.

        • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Sounds like those statistics output would the heavily biased by whatever process you were using to turn names into genders. In short, a bad idea.

          • TangledHyphae@lemmy.world
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            4 months ago

            “Since the dataset isn’t 100% perfectly annotated for analysis, we should give up the whole project entirely.”