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Personally, being male, I'd rather be thought of as male. Not as a slight towards females, but just because it's who I am.

That said, I did get 0.998 female and 0.996 male. Oh well.

If you're looking to avoid disclosing personal data, then it's a positive. On the other hand, if you're actually making use of a service, then it would probably lead to a lot of unwanted targeted information. Then, assuming a future of ambient intelligence where most people don't question machine mined data (I'd say an inevitability), you'd probably have a lot of awkward moments ensue, especially if public and private institutions hold data to be sacrosanct.

That's a very binary take on gender.