Gender Inference from Names
Discussions question the relevance, assumptions, and implications of inferring or using gender from names in software tools or services, often criticizing binary gender options and advocating for neutrality.
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What’s gender have to do with this?
Are you assuming people's genders?
Maybe to keep it gender neutral?
Curious what gender has to do with it?
Only 2 genders listed though? Why does ever app/service like this make this assumption
Did you just assume their gender ?
Gender/sex are still on the table tho?
Stop assuming that names are indicative of gender, dude.
surprised that gender is that useful for this
Why does this need to be gendered?