Simple enough question. Can you tell the gender of an animal just from looking at its face? For today's experiment, we shall choose the household cat.
Be thankful I didn't choose worms, or something.
P.S. Although I didn't intend it, cats A and B look mugshots of felines up for some kind of crime. Premeditated murder of a mouse, maybe, and cat D appears to have eaten the evidence.
Be thankful I didn't choose worms, or something.
P.S. Although I didn't intend it, cats A and B look mugshots of felines up for some kind of crime. Premeditated murder of a mouse, maybe, and cat D appears to have eaten the evidence.
And I'll shamelessly pin this reply to Nora's as hers was most popular.
All four cats were female. They were picked randomly from a cat adoption site. The responses I got show that people only really had a fix on cat A, the others showed no obvious swing. Cat A was by far the youngest cat, not long out of kittenhood, which may have swung people too (apart from wigsplitz).
Final note: All these cats genuinely require homes. If you're thinking of getting a kitten, just spend a moment in considering adopting an adult cat.
I feel really stupid now, because actually it part of my general knowledge, i just kind of didn't apply it here.
Guess i'll blame it on work distracting me when i was taking my guess :)
A: Female, B:Female, C:Female, D:Female
...despite this actually being the correct answer. It was a deliberate mistake, by the way, rather than an experiment, although I did notice it quite soon after approval and kept schtum to see who would notice.
I am just amused it's you doing the same guess :)
(parrish: don't feel bad, but if i can join you or Nora...well...)
I still voted but I hated every second of it. Why are you so obsessed with cats?!
Meooooooow!
I don't think an animal's facial structure tells me anything about it's gender. I mean fuck, I've got kids genders wrong based on face, hair and clothes.
A is a female.
D is a bit of a toss up, but I am fairly sure that is a female.
This is a great poll, by the way. :}
I should have took him up on the offer. He might still be here today if I did...
I was wrong! I remember when this poll first came up. I was in the chat talking about it. I was going to change my answer so many times, but I never had an all female guess. Cat B, she looks just like one of my cats except it's a male and he has dark brown fur, his name is Brown Boo. Cat B also looks a lot like BB's grandma. ::)
Uh, I probably got the one about the dogs wrong too. I said they were a mix of genders. Then I started to think they were all males. I'm wrong, aren't I?
Someone who speaks Spanish needs to tell me the plural of female dogs. I'm voting perras.
I'm a little sad, I was wrong, not once, but twice. I should do something to make it up to myself. ::(
It probably is possible to know though. I've just not been exposed to enough kitties to know the differences :(
I'll tell you what you could have presumed, though (and which nobody did). I decided *very* early on to have a "control" group that were all the same gender (not just cats, but the dogs too). It makes the results easier to analyse and it removes a bit of guesswork (nobody guesses all the same gender, just like nobody does the lottery with the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 despite it being as likely as anything else).
If that made any sense, anyway... I'm not so good at explaining that sort of stuff. It was also a huge tangent, plus I'm betting if it did make any sense you already knew it :P
Yours is a clever way if doing it, although, most people got 2 of the 4 right anyway and running a little experiment through IIN doesn't always work because you get to read each other's answers first which obviously skews the results.
Every combination of numbers has an equal chance of winning the lottery but some combinations have more chance of not sharing the prize (hence higher yield). This is what you were getting at. With a huge sample, the best way is to be fairly unspecific about what you are doing (i.e. the opposite of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) but yet still increase your chances.
People often play the same numbers and so need a way of remembering their numbers. House numbers and birthdays loom large. And higher numbers are less common. Most roads have a number 1. Not every road has a number 49. Similarly birthdays; I don't know many people born on the 32nd to the 49th of the month. Or the 13th month onwards.
If you pick the four least popular numbers, and then two at random (to counteract the other people doing the same), you give yourself a great chance.
Side note: Best option is to pick 4.3 least popular numbers and 1.7 at random, but - obviously - this isn't possible, so you need to round it to four and two.
Orange tabby cats are most often males, too, but that doesn't matter to this question. Females can be orange but it's more rare.
There, that's probably more than you care to know about cat colors!!
Posting the results soon by the way so I don't mind backing up your fact now by saying the tricoloured cat is indeed female.
i'm going with
A: Female, B:Female, C:Male, D:Male