An Eye for Sexual Orientation

Science Magazine ^ | 1/18/2008 | Matt Kaplan

[jdm]

Is there an interactive version for us to play?

I always think those things are fun.

Especially one’s where you have to guess whether the person is Republican or Democrat.

[JoanVarga]

Waiting for the inevitable pics...

[gitmo]

Here's one

[jdm]

How do you remove vomit from a monitor?

[Varda]

Unless the study controlled for hairstyle and jewelry, it’s useless for anything other than propaganda.

[JoanVarga]

Wait! Wait! I know this one!

Gay.

Right? Am I right?!!

[K-oneTexas]

From the keyboard would be worse.

[gitmo]

The stories in Gary Aldrich’s book would make one think so.

[Quix]

Uhhhhhhhhh . . . that comment stems from how much research of what type?

The study was a solid one with good design.

Therefore, the assertion I’m responding to seems to be from . . . what . . . wholesale bias; inexperience succeeding at such assessments . . . what?

[jdm]

From the keyboard would be worse.

Probalby not as bad as this, though!

[K-oneTexas]

About ervrytimr I see or Hear “Shillary” ... yeah it is!

[jdm]

Between the Scroll Lock and Pause/Break keys. Can’t think of a better place for a cigarette.

[miele man]

The carpet muncher’s dental work isn’t the best. The two capped teeth don’t quite match the color of the other teeth and the front uncapped tooth is filed unequally. Probably should have worked on the lower front teeth as well to avoid this upper work.

[nmh]

With all her money, you’d think Hillary would have better looking teeth. She has old horse teeth. One of the bug front ones on the upper row has some black on it.

[Bushwacker777]

Huma!!!!!

[brwnsuga]

She has some gum loss. Perhaps she should see a periodontist.

[stormer]

"Unless the study controlled for hairstyle and jewelry, it’s useless for anything other than propaganda."

I'm not so sure about that. Let's ask an expert...

[E. Cartman]

Did you ever notice how much Leona Helmsely looked like Liberace...but just not nearly as feminine?

[rbg81]

The human brain is an extremely complex instrument. Over a lifetime, people learn a great deal about just about everything. Some of these things can be enumerated into rules and opinions—others cannot, but just manifest themselves as “gut feelings”. This phenomenon has been well documented, especially in the case of police and fireman who (correctly) know something is wrong even if the facts aren’t yet apparent. In many cases, what your gut tells you turns out to be right—the problem is you often can’t say why. Of course, in this study, they appear to have helped things along by telling the subjects what characteristic they were trying to discriminate.