Friday, June 16, 2006

duCklinG Resolves the Battle of the Sexes (with Google help)

Well, seeing as Google is now a big part of everything and becoming an important source of information mining, I decided that the Google oracle can resolve the ongoing battle of the sexes.

I posed a series of relevant and extremely well thought out expressions and statements to Google, and recorded the number of results returned carefully. The results are a bit shocking to me. Surprisingly one sided (Grrrrr!). These are the questions (including quotes):

"there are more men in the world": 61
"there are more women in the world": 290

"men rule": 86,700
"women rule": 188,000

"men are better drivers": 297
"women are better drivers": 528

"women make good scientists": 6
"men make good scientists": 0

"men cook better": 17
"women cook better": 49

"men have more fun": 114
"women have more fun": 289

"men have it easy": 437
"women have it easy": 305

"men make better friends": 67
"women make better friends": 23

"men play fair": 6
"women play fair": 6

"can't live without men": 117
"can't live without women": 144

Finally, I just asked, Man or Woman? Judge for yourself. :)

man: 2,700,000,000
woman: 1,290,000,000

Maybe Google's a guy.

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