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Now this is interesting, I entered in my name (Dillon) which is gender-neutral and it returned:

{"name":"dillon","gender":"male","probability":"1.00","count":1}

I'm interested is how its decided there was a 100% probability that I'm male (It was correct though).

..Dillon is gender neutral? I understand that this could be said about any name (which makes predicting gender a non-trivial problem), but I am pretty sure I've never met a female Dillon.

Hey Dillon. It only found one match for "Dillon" in the dataset, which was a male. If Dillon is gender neutral the probability will probably change into some decimal when the dataset grows.

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