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Updated README.md to match tuple based ambiguous names
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Lars J. Nielsen committed Dec 7, 2013
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Just a simple dict primarily derived from census bureau data http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html
I fully recognize there is no right answer as to which gender a name is (or even what "gender" means), but
this can still be useful for stats purposes. For ambiguous names gender is, in most cases, the one which had more people
that census thinks belong to that gender, some are instead marked as unisex.
this can still be useful for stats purposes. For most ambiguous names gender is the one which had more people
that census thinks belong to that gender, the ones not listed like that are instead tuples of genders
in descending order of likelihood.


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