"That's...fabulous."
Cheers!
Posted on 06/03/2012 5:05:21 PM PDT by Theoria
“GAYDAR” colloquially refers to the ability to accurately glean others’ sexual orientation from mere observation. But does gaydar really exist? If so, how does it work?
Our research, published recently in the peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE, shows that gaydar is indeed real and that its accuracy is driven by sensitivity to individual facial features as well as the spatial relationships among facial features.
We conducted experiments in which participants viewed facial photographs of men and women and then categorized each face as gay or straight. The photographs were seen very briefly, for 50 milliseconds, which was long enough for participants to know they’d seen a face, but probably not long enough to feel they knew much more. In addition, the photos were mostly devoid of cultural cues: hairstyles were digitally removed, and no faces had makeup, piercings, eyeglasses or tattoos.
Even when viewing such bare faces so briefly, participants demonstrated an ability to identify sexual orientation: overall, gaydar judgments were about 60 percent accurate.
Since chance guessing would yield 50 percent accuracy, 60 percent might not seem impressive. But the effect is statistically significant — several times above the margin of error. Furthermore, the effect has been highly replicable: we ourselves have consistently discovered such effects in more than a dozen experiments, and our gaydar research was inspired by the work of the social psychologist Nicholas Rule, who has published on the gaydar phenomenon numerous times in the past few years.
We reported two such experiments in PLoS ONE, both of which yielded novel findings. In one experiment, we found above-chance gaydar accuracy even when the faces were presented upside down. Accuracy increased, however, when the faces were presented right side up.
What can we make of this peculiar discovery?
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Homosexuals and Communists in Hollywood look after their own.
If anyone reads and knows their Bible this question is easily answered.
If you have sex with someone you become ONE FLESH.
Ever notice how elderly couples look like one another?
The same is true for those who have multiple encounters with strange flesh. They begin to accumulate those traits we can then observe.
(All the *real* men got killed off in the Crusades, WW I , and WW II.)
Cheers!
"That's...fabulous."
Cheers!
“Straight American guys who have spent some time in Europe”
I had to laugh - have you seen the musical Legally Blonde - there is a whole courtroom scene where they are wondering if the defendant is “gay or European” and singing about it -and then the AH HA moment - Gay And European.
It’s hilarious, but maybe one has to be there.
I know what you mean.
Agree with both points. Well put.
Yep. Dresses and looks like a junior high school boy.
Totally! Gay men smile bigger, including the First Gay President!
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