[Full-disclosure] Squashing supposed hacker profiling

All female authors... Your so called gender guessing mechanism is flawed either way you want to cut it. You could try fuzzy math based on theories to profile anyone on this list, but unless you have feasible and PROVEN without reasonable doubt, its all a guessing game bottom line. Anyhow back to security, sociolinguistics is not meant for this list.

According to Dr. Krawetz's Gender Guesser... (http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.html#Analyze)
http://girlygeekdom.blogspot.com/
Genre: Informal
Female = 104
Male = 602
Difference = 498; 85.26%
Verdict: MALE
Genre: Formal
Female = 116
Male = 239
Difference = 123; 67.32%
Verdict: MALE

REALITY: WRONG

http://www.darkreading.com/blog.asp?blog_sectionid=342&WT.svl=blogger1_5
Genre: Informal
Female = 442
Male = 555
Difference = 113; 55.66%
Verdict: Weak MALE
Genre: Formal
Female = 364
Male = 570
Difference = 206; 61.02%
Verdict: MALE

REALITY: WRONG

http://invisiblethings.org/papers/joanna-talk_description-CCC04.txt
Genre: Informal
Female = 218v
Male = 1186
Difference = 968; 84.47%
Verdict: MALE
Genre: Formal
Female = 414
Male = 576
Difference = 162; 58.18%
Verdict: Weak MALE

REALITY: WRONG

http://www.techsploitation.com/2007/05/31/what-the-hell-was-i-thinking-about-green-libertarians/ (text by Sue Lange)
Genre: Informal
Female = 210
Male = 481
Difference = 271; 69.6%
Verdict: MALE
Genre: Formal
Female = 260
Male = 408
Difference = 148; 61.07%
Verdict: MALE

REALITY: WRONG

http://thelizardqueen.wordpress.com/2005/06/08/a-thoroughly-and-utterly-girly-blog-post-sorry-4/
Genre: Informal
Female = 415
Male = 559
Difference = 144; 57.39%
Verdict: Weak MALE
Genre: Formal
Female = 180
Male = 312
Difference = 132; 63.41%
Verdict: MALE

REALITY: WRONG


To be fair I had to go to the most feminine place I could think of, even then it was iffy.

http://groups.ivillage.com/motherdaughter/
Genre: Informal
Female = 226
Male = 337
Difference = 111; 59.85%
Verdict: Weak MALE
Genre: Formal
Female = 326
Male = 314
Difference = -12; 49.06%
Verdict: Weak FEMALE

REALITY: MAYBE THE AUTHOR HERE WAS FLAMINGLY GAY

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J. Oquendo
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x1383A743
echo infiltrated.net|sed 's/^/sil@/g'

"Wise men talk because they have something to say;
fools, because they have to say something." -- Plato


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