Paul prefer not to specify
Recently, looking at the next web-form profile for unnecessary details, I asked myself: is it necessary to manually specify your gender?
Let us imagine a situation when an electronic form is filled with personal information. This can be an office employee working with customer questionnaires, or a user editing a profile in Habré. Before him is a column of data fields, and I am ready to argue that the "Last Name" and "First Name" are at the very top, and they are filled first. Following them switch "M or F" at first glance is not surprising. After all, firstly, we often answer this point in paper questionnaires, and secondly, we rejoice in ourselves that now the car will magnify us correctly - “respect”!
In fact, the system is not as helpless as it tries to appear. Alexander Shevchenko, Tatyana Ivanova - for some reason you have no questions about who is who. However, most sites and programs act strangely, forcing to clarify the obvious.
A simple observation shows that the binding of the sex to the specified name is unambiguous. The last name does not give a definite answer, moreover, it is reported where less often than just a first name, but sometimes it can help to resolve the ambiguity of interpretation.
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The technical implementation of such parallels may be different. In some cases, a simple word analysis is enough. For example, modern male Russian names usually end in a consonant (exceptions: Danila, Ilya, Nikita, but they are easy to take into account), and vice versa, female names - on a vowel. If you have to work with users of different nationalities, it is probably better to compile a database. In the end, even if the rare name is not on the list, you can always apologize and ask again what sex Vali is or, say, Raushan.
It should be remembered that in a public service, users can allow freedom in spelling the name, which will cause the appearance of “Zhen”, “Sasha”, etc. Then, if the name was given, analyze it. The search for generic endings ––, –––, –– ––, is applicable to Russians. If it does not help, we have the full right to ask a clarifying question.
The only place in which the described approach will be ineffective will probably be communities where it is not customary to indicate anything except a pseudonym. A variety of nicknames (and sometimes just their abstractness) makes the analysis system too complicated, so the “sexual” switch will have to be left.
Let us imagine a situation when an electronic form is filled with personal information. This can be an office employee working with customer questionnaires, or a user editing a profile in Habré. Before him is a column of data fields, and I am ready to argue that the "Last Name" and "First Name" are at the very top, and they are filled first. Following them switch "M or F" at first glance is not surprising. After all, firstly, we often answer this point in paper questionnaires, and secondly, we rejoice in ourselves that now the car will magnify us correctly - “respect”!
In fact, the system is not as helpless as it tries to appear. Alexander Shevchenko, Tatyana Ivanova - for some reason you have no questions about who is who. However, most sites and programs act strangely, forcing to clarify the obvious.
A simple observation shows that the binding of the sex to the specified name is unambiguous. The last name does not give a definite answer, moreover, it is reported where less often than just a first name, but sometimes it can help to resolve the ambiguity of interpretation.
')
The technical implementation of such parallels may be different. In some cases, a simple word analysis is enough. For example, modern male Russian names usually end in a consonant (exceptions: Danila, Ilya, Nikita, but they are easy to take into account), and vice versa, female names - on a vowel. If you have to work with users of different nationalities, it is probably better to compile a database. In the end, even if the rare name is not on the list, you can always apologize and ask again what sex Vali is or, say, Raushan.
It should be remembered that in a public service, users can allow freedom in spelling the name, which will cause the appearance of “Zhen”, “Sasha”, etc. Then, if the name was given, analyze it. The search for generic endings ––, –––, –– ––, is applicable to Russians. If it does not help, we have the full right to ask a clarifying question.
The only place in which the described approach will be ineffective will probably be communities where it is not customary to indicate anything except a pseudonym. A variety of nicknames (and sometimes just their abstractness) makes the analysis system too complicated, so the “sexual” switch will have to be left.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/23432/
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