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From: "Steven Lord" <slord@mathworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Gender detection
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"Rune Allnor" <allnor@tele.ntnu.no> wrote in message 
news:d30b2db0-96a6-453e-80b5-c3d572253d05@a36g2000yqc.googlegroups.com...

*snip*

> What happens in reality is that you base the discrimunation
> on the whole evolutionary history of Homo Sapiens.
> The human brain is fine-tuned to size up every single
> person you see:

And even at that, it's not always easy for humans to make that 
determination.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_(Saturday_Night_Live)

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Steve Lord
slord@mathworks.com