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Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
The National Science Foundation spent $30,000 to fund a study done by the University of Washington and Cornell University's to
measure "gaydar" - the ability of people to identify sexual orientation merely by appearance. The researchers confirmed that "gaydar"
exists, writing that participants were about 60% accurate when attempting to identify sexual orientation by appearance.
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That needed & groundbreaking study is mentioned here, along with other examples of wasteful spending....
Moroccan Pottery, Obamaphones, and Gaydar: How the Government Wasted Your Money This Year - Kevin Glass - [page]

Caution: This thread is for non-partisan griping.
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
savagewind said:
I think 60% does not prove anything. It's only 10% more than 50/50.
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Are you suggesting that government do more research & training so that our gaydar can be enhanced to 90% accuracy?
I always suspected that you were trying to get rich on research grants!
 
Iti oj

Iti oj

Global warming is real and we need to act
Premium Member
Do people of different orientation give of different hormones phereamones testerone etc?
 
Father Heathen

Father Heathen

Veteran Member
I googled up the following test and got a 70% (80% the second time, and it's never the same set of people):

OkCupid | The Gaydar Test

Of course, it tries to get you to sign up before displaying the results, but there is a tiny "no thanks" button below it.
 
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The Sum of Awe

The Sum of Awe

Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
Not offense but...

Damn, NSF... is this what you're really spending all that money on to study?
 
Valjean

Valjean

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Why couldn't this study be extrapolated to other identification controversies?
Arizona lawmen identifying illegal aliens or new York officers identifying druggies or gangstas comes to mind.
The legitimacy of "Papers please" and "stop & frisk" legislation hinges on visual identification of suspect groups.
 
V

Vile Atheist

Loud and Obnoxious
60%. All these results show that people can generally can correctly guess someone's sexual orientation just by looking at them. Some had obvious signs. One guy on my test was wearing a rainbow necklace. That kinda gave it away.

But it also shows that we're also incorrect a significant amount of times in guessing people's orientation. The only times we're generally able to guess correctly is when there are social cues: short hair for women, wearing anything rainbow, certain piercings or hairstyles for men, etc. In the absence of these cues, we're totally at a loss.

Edit: Obviously the above post was written from my heterosexual point of view.
 
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