Can the gender continuum test predict whether you are male or female?

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[–]FlippyKing 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't really feel like contributing points of data to help validate a ridiculous notion.

Gender is made up. Sex is real. I don't need a test to determine my sex. I don't need to add to the overthinking of gender either as the complete load of crap being shoved down our throats or as the place where sex-based physical differences and potential sex-based behavioral differences intersect with the societal norms generalized from those or magnified into straight-jackets from those.

[–]Apis 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's clearly talking about average sex differences in traits and is very clear that they are small differences between population averages, and that there is substantial overlap between the sexes on any given trait.

[–]Anonimouse 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Based on your answers to the personality questions....

Our machine learning model predicts that (if you identify as "male" or "female") you have a:

90% chance of being Female 10% chance of being Male

[–]FlippyKing 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

But you don't have those chances. Male and female are sexes, gender is crap.

[–]xandit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

that was the problem, they kept saying gender but they were studying male female differences.

[–]Apis 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's a predictive percent giving the odds that some unknown person who gives that set of responses is male or female. That's why they used the word "predicts" because the machine algorithm spitting out the prediction doesn't know the sex of who is answering. Its saying that about 90% of who answers that way is female.

[–]xandit 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I got 84% male and 16% gay.

[–]soundsituation[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

My results:

Based on your answers to the personality questions...

Our machine learning model predicts that (if you identify as "male" or "female") you have a:

  • 64% chance of being Female
  • 36% chance of being Male

[–]Femaleisnthateful 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Lol my results were the opposite.

[–]GCMomNY 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I must be non-brainery based on my results lol

[–]Apis 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I got 99.93% likely male, 0.07% female. Think my personality is more balanced than that but whatever. Must be heavily weighted on most predictive. Sex-focused, thick skinned, and risk taking are strongest traits of mine after being emotionally thick -headed and disagreeable. The female correlated traits are how I try to be but the male-correlated traits are more how I am. Except wouldn't want to ditch the lack of anxiety and thick skinned traits. Those come in handy.