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Comment author: mstevens 17 February 2013 10:08:43PM 5 points [-]

Okay, after threatening, I had a go at hacking up a smiley gender detector for lesswrong irc.

Looking at the counts of smileys-per-message by nick, no obvious pattern.

Looking at averages:

male avg 0.015764359871 female avg 0.0194180023583

The dataset I'm using is so male dominated I don't think the results can be particularly meaningful.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 18 February 2013 01:57:44AM 2 points [-]

How are you determining gender of users?

Comment author: mstevens 18 February 2013 10:29:26AM 4 points [-]

The number of female users is so small I just hardcoded known female nicks.

As I say, I don't think the results are particularly meaningful.