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PHP: Gender\Gender - Manual (www.php.net)
submitted 4 months ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Slightly less stupid than the list of constants would imply.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.ca 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.pub 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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 -1 points 4 months ago

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