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To: PapaBear3625
Why are the gay organizations flipping out? Because they have been trying very hard to discredit the idea that somebody can accurately tell if somebody is gay.

Nobody is more convinced that they can accurately identify homosexuals than other homosexuals. Probably gay groups are concerned that it will be used to screen out gays.

“When an algorithm with 91 percent accuracy operates in the real world,” Dr. Cox said, “almost two-thirds of the times it says someone is gay, it would be wrong.”

In other words, even with the machine, "gaydar" isn't always on target.

7 posted on 10/10/2017 4:55:52 AM PDT by x
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Nobody is more convinced that they can accurately identify homosexuals than other homosexuals.

Once again:

Romans 8:16 niv

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.

24 posted on 10/10/2017 6:03:42 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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“When an algorithm with 91 percent accuracy operates in the real world,” Dr. Cox said, “almost two-thirds of the times it says someone is gay, it would be wrong.”

If it is 91% accurate why would it wrongly identify gays 66% of the time?


34 posted on 10/10/2017 7:31:44 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The DemocRAT party has been taking a knee on America for decades.)
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This is just research though - They usually have 5% significance, so if the accuracy is over 5% higher than flipping a coin (50%), it’s significant. What I took away was that humans can pick out gays significantly better than chance (61%) and the machine did it extremely well (84%). It’s impressive.


36 posted on 10/10/2017 8:23:08 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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