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PHP: Gender\Gender - Manual (www.php.net)

submitted 6 days ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] bss03@infosec.pub -1 points 5 days 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 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

No, since the dataset is bound to give nonsensical results, we search for sources that are more precise. Hint: "Andrea" already mentioned and Japanese names

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 1 points 4 days ago

"Since the data is incomplete, we decided to make shit up"