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ChristianKl comments on The horrifying importance of domain knowledge - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: NancyLebovitz 30 July 2015 03:28PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 03 August 2015 02:58:30PM 2 points [-]

Knowing gender means that it's possible to use the proper pronoun. Having a lot of demographic information is also useful to understand user behavior better. You can show women different ads then men.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 03 August 2015 07:31:40PM 1 point [-]

You could ask for preferred pronouns, and possibly take the risk of having a text field for pronouns that aren't on your list.

I have no idea whether you'd do better with ads that are targeted to preferred title and pronouns rather than to stated gender, but you might.