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Study Says 'Gaydar' Is Real

By WILLIAM WEIR
Courant.com
August 21, 2008

Not only does "gaydar" exist, suggests a study out of Tufts University, but it can work pretty fast.

Some people say they can tell the sexual orientation of folks with little information, and now a study gives them data to back up their claims.

Published in July's Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, the study claims that people could guess fairly accurately ("better than chance") whether men were gay or straight by looking at photos of their faces.

For the study, 15 undergraduate students, both male and female, were shown photos of faces of 90 men, evenly divided between gay and straight. The photos were taken from Internet personal ads and from Facebook. The study's lead author, graduate student Nicholas Rule, says men were used in this study for convenience, because they have a greater presence on the Internet than women.

The researchers found that subjects could accurately determine in 50 milliseconds — one-twentieth of a second — whether the men were gay or straight about 60 percent of the time. Rule says all the subjects were accurate 55 percent to 70 percent of the time.

www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-gaydar.artaug21,0,1062750.story

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Originally posted by whozit:
I'm more interested in Tanya Tuckers Boob job disaster.

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Originally posted by ecgordon:
I'd make some crack about PirateNews being gay, but that would be an insult to the gay community.

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Originally posted by Hero:

5. "What I lack in size I make up for by stalking."

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:


I think there really is such a thing as "Gaydar", and it's based on a whole lot of conscious and subconsious behavior cues, like how one reacts to a member of a certain sex brushing the edges of their personal space, initial reaction, eye movement and position, all the same things used in other behavioral studies, so it's not without precedent either...

So yeah, there's such a thing, but I don't see how it really *matters* to anyone, should it ?

-Frem
*(I have six cats, mind you, and can do the male version of crazy old cat lady extraordinarly well, and could prolly bore a tree stump into suicidal feelings if I wanted to)

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Originally posted by AnthonyT:

P.S. Did you say 'mos deny its existence? The only people I ever heard the term 'Gaydar' from were homosexual men, commenting on their ability to detect other homosexual men. You're the first straight guy I've ever heard talk about this phenomenon with any excitement.

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Originally posted by piratenews:
Every hetero knows gaydar is real, most of the time. It's a survival instinct.

Only the mos deny its existance, for some reason.

Or at least that's what they claim on FFF.

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Some tips if you are trying to hide being gay:

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Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Jeeze, gaydar....Didnt Al Bundy coin this phrase?

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