Science If Chiefsplanet members were dogs... - Page 8

**Rain Man** · 02:28 PM

I'm closing in on a deadline today, which means that I'm self-sabotaging by monkeying around with something. So I developed a dog simulator to show you what kind of breed you'd be if you were born a dog.

I went to the American Kennel Club site and pulled down their list of breeds, and created a little random selector. If you want to know your breed, post in the thread and I'll give you the breakdown. You can then look them up on the AKC site here: http://www.akc.org/breeds/complete_breed_list.cfm.

However, we're not all purebreds, so most of us will be a mix of breeds. Therefore, I set my selector up to give people a 25% chance of being a purebred. If not, you have a 50 percent chance of being 50% one breed and 50% some other mix, which is itself a 50 percent chance of being one breed and 50% some other mix. The maximum is an eight-breed mix and I stop there.

I assumed the registered breeds are most common and made them 97 percent of the probability. I don't have population data on how common each breed is, so all of those breeds are equally likely. Similarly, for the unregistered/rare breeds, I made them all equally likely, and they collectively will represent 3 percent of breeds.

When I post your results, it'll have a number followed by the breed. The number is the percent you have in you, so if you have multiple breeds they should all add up to 100. If a breed appears twice, add them up. (I don't pull a breed from the algorithm once it's been selected so it's possible, albeit unlikely, that it can show up more than once.)

Ready? Post if you want to be a dog and I'll give you your results.

I'll start. Here's what I am.

I'm a mutt, sort of:

50 Silky Terrier
12.5 Flat-Coated Retriever
12.5 Swedish Vallhund
12.5 Saluki
12.5 Cane Corso

So I'm half this guy....

and 1/8th each of these. (For some reason the AKC didn't have a Cane Corso drawing.) That probably means I'm a medium-small dog with moderately long hair and a healthy snout.

I'll post the numbers, but not pictures. You can pull them off the AKC site for most dogs.

**Rain Man** · 01-12-2011, 05:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Otter

Lay it on me cat man!

Now that's a cool dog. Running around, hair blowing in the wind...

50 Shih Tzu
50 Italian Greyhound

**Rain Man** · 01-12-2011, 05:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Detoxing

Me next! Me next! Next time my lady calls me a dog, i can tell her to be descriptive.

50 Collie
50 Otterhound

I've never heard of an otterhound, but now I want one.

**Rain Man** · 01-12-2011, 05:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

in

Another hard-to-visualize dog. Probably mid-sized, probably curly hair?

25 Pyrenean Shepherd
12.5 West Highland White Terrier
12.5 Mastiff
12.5 Curly-Coated Retriever
12.5 English Springer Spaniel
12.5 Welsh Terrier
12.5 Bull Terrier

**Bwana** · 01-12-2011, 05:25 PM

Do it.

**Rain Man** · 01-12-2011, 05:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bwana

Do it.

50 Airedale Terrier
50 Portuguese Water Dog

You'd be good at duck hunting.

KurtCobain · 01-12-2011, 05:29 PM

How about my mom?

**Rain Man** · 01-12-2011, 05:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KurtCobain

How about my mom?

Your mom is a mongrel that spitz. But pretty.

12.5 Chinese Crested
12.5 Chesapeake Bay Retriever
12.5 Saluki
12.5 Dandie Dinmont Terrier
12.5 Puli
12.5 Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever
12.5 Finnish Spitz
12.5 Belgian Malinois

**alnorth** · 01-12-2011, 05:33 PM

woof?

**kysirsoze** · 01-12-2011, 05:33 PM

What would be awesome would be if someone could start photshopping selected mutts here ala Conan's "What if They Mated." Probably alot of work, but could be interesting.

Oh, and dog me please.

**Rain Man** · 01-12-2011, 05:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alnorth

woof?

Woof with a deep voice. It may just cancel out to a collie, though.

50 Border Collie
25 Swedish Vallhund
25 Great Dane

**Rain Man** · 01-12-2011, 05:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kysirsoze

What would be awesome would be if someone could start photshopping selected mutts here ala Conan's "What if They Mated." Probably alot of work, but could be interesting.

Oh, and dog me please.

100 Wire Fox Terrier

You're dog show material, anyone ever tell you that?

**kysirsoze** · 01-12-2011, 05:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rain Man

100 Wire Fox Terrier

You're dog show material, anyone ever tell you that?

Often.

Glad I don't have to use imagination to know what I look like. That sounded really hard.

**alnorth** · 01-12-2011, 05:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Woof with a deep voice. It may just cancel out to a collie, though.

50 Border Collie
25 Swedish Vallhund
25 Great Dane

never heard of a Swedish Vallhund.

Looks almost like a miniature german shepherd, apparently also good at dog agility courses. Whatever that mix is, I should be good at catching frisbees.

Chiefs=Champions · 01-12-2011, 07:39 PM

Me next, me next!

**RealSNR** · 01-12-2011, 07:42 PM

If your random selector puts me as one of those tiny yip-yip dogs, I'm going to drive to Colorado myself and break your laptop.

I mean, I'd get you a new one, but it'd have to be one that's smart enough to know what kind of dog I REALLY am

01-12-2011, 02:16 PM
Rain Man Seize life. Be an ermine. Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: My house Casino cash: $-692449 VARSITY	If Chiefsplanet members were dogs... I'm closing in on a deadline today, which means that I'm self-sabotaging by monkeying around with something. So I developed a dog simulator to show you what kind of breed you'd be if you were born a dog. I went to the American Kennel Club site and pulled down their list of breeds, and created a little random selector. If you want to know your breed, post in the thread and I'll give you the breakdown. You can then look them up on the AKC site here: http://www.akc.org/breeds/complete_breed_list.cfm. However, we're not all purebreds, so most of us will be a mix of breeds. Therefore, I set my selector up to give people a 25% chance of being a purebred. If not, you have a 50 percent chance of being 50% one breed and 50% some other mix, which is itself a 50 percent chance of being one breed and 50% some other mix. The maximum is an eight-breed mix and I stop there. I assumed the registered breeds are most common and made them 97 percent of the probability. I don't have population data on how common each breed is, so all of those breeds are equally likely. Similarly, for the unregistered/rare breeds, I made them all equally likely, and they collectively will represent 3 percent of breeds. When I post your results, it'll have a number followed by the breed. The number is the percent you have in you, so if you have multiple breeds they should all add up to 100. If a breed appears twice, add them up. (I don't pull a breed from the algorithm once it's been selected so it's possible, albeit unlikely, that it can show up more than once.) Ready? Post if you want to be a dog and I'll give you your results. I'll start. Here's what I am. I'm a mutt, sort of: 50 Silky Terrier 12.5 Flat-Coated Retriever 12.5 Swedish Vallhund 12.5 Saluki 12.5 Cane Corso So I'm half this guy.... and 1/8th each of these. (For some reason the AKC didn't have a Cane Corso drawing.) That probably means I'm a medium-small dog with moderately long hair and a healthy snout. I'll post the numbers, but not pictures. You can pull them off the AKC site for most dogs. Last edited by Rain Man; 01-12-2011 at 02:28 PM..
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