Thanks for the feedback. It looks like "Barrie" is commonly used as a male name in the UK, but in the US census data it is much more commonly used as a female name (our guesses are based primarily on US census data). There is no absolute right or wrong answer here, it depends on the area of application. But since we think the US census covers a broader population more likely to be relevant to more users of the package, we're going to leave it like this for now. We'll add a caveat in the documentation regarding regionality effects.
On Tue Nov 29 08:19:31 2016, NHORNE wrote:
Show quoted text> Whilst it *can* be female, it's more usually male. See
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https://themeaningofthename.com/barrie/
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> $ cat xy
> use Text::Names;
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> print Text::Names::guessGender("Barrie Smith"), "\n";
> $ perl xy
> F
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