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by spuz 4647 days ago
It doesn't necessarily need to be 100% accurate to be useful. For example, you might use something like this to choose the gender of randomly generated NPCs in a game. In that case, it probably doesn't matter that the gender of names is always correct but it would add to the realism if it was. I'm not sure why you would generate a NPCs from a single list of names rather than one of male and one of female names but I'm sure there are other examples of problems where this kind of service could work well.