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From: Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro
Date: 5 April 2005
Subject: Poll Results: Guessing age/sex patent - useful or invasion of privacy ?

The previous KDnuggets Poll asked: Recent patent granted to Amazon.com offers a method for guessing age, gender, and a birthday of a gift recipient.

Unlike the previous poll about gender and mathematics, this poll generated less controversy and no comments. Of the exactly 100 votes,

  • 43% chose "This could be useful service for reminders and suggestions"
  • 30% chose - "This is an invasion of privacy - I don't want companies guessing age and gender"
with the rest selecting "Don't care" option.

Here are full results of KDnuggets Poll on Amazon gender/age guessing patent.


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