The tth about 'gaydar' | CNN

Contents:

• GAYDAR
• IS ‘GAYDAR’ REALLY A THG?
• THE TTH ABOUT ‘GAYDAR’
• MEANG OF GAYDAR ENGLISH
• THE SCIENCE OF “GAYDAR”: HOW WELL CAN WE DETECT OTHER PEOPLE’S SEXUAL ORIENTATN?
• GAYDAR
• GAYDAR
• GAYDAR—SENDG MIXED SIGNALS
• GAYDAR
• GAYDAR (N.)
• MEANG OF GAYDAR ENGLISH
• GAYDAR
• GAYDAR

GAYDAR

Slang: the supposed abily to regnize through observatn or tun that a person is gay. Women's gaydar improv durg ovulatn. My gaydar even don’t work that well the prent, let alone retroactively.

IS ‘GAYDAR’ REALLY A THG?

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“Gaydar. When they disver that he died of AIDS, Philomena says she always knew he was gay.

THE TTH ABOUT ‘GAYDAR’

This kd of tun is often lled “gaydar” (a batn of “gay” and “radar. ”) However, skeptics dismiss gaydar as nothg more than a set of stereotyp about homosexuals that are largely unte.

In a seri of experiments, he and his lleagu tted people’s abili to judge others’ sexual orientatn, and me to the ncln that gaydar is real.

Rule claims that gaydar is jt like other social tuns. But how exactly do gaydar work?

MEANG OF GAYDAR ENGLISH

For example, homosexual men tend to be more meticulo about their clothg and hairstyle pared wh heterosexual mal. In a procs known as genr versn, gay men tend to sway their hips like straight women, while lbians tend to swagger their shoulrs like straight men. Rule not that many people hold speech stereotyp about homosexuals, such as the belief that gay men lisp when they talk.

THE SCIENCE OF “GAYDAR”: HOW WELL CAN WE DETECT OTHER PEOPLE’S SEXUAL ORIENTATN?

Aga, we see that gaydar works like other social tuns, that the stereotyp people nscly hold don’t match the featur their tuns tect at an unnsc level. The fact that facial featur provi visual cu to sexual orientatn lends support for epigeic theori that attribute homosexualy to prenatal experienc such as exposure to hormon utero. So seems que likely that Philomena uld have known that her ltle boy was gay, as she claims the movie.

GAYDAR

Furthermore, people differ their gaydar abili. People wh strongly exprsed homophobia aren’t very accurate at judgg sexual orientatn, even though they thk they are. Straight people who have gay iends are more accurate their judgments, but they feel ls nfince their asssments.

And not surprisgly, gays and lbians are generally que accurate at judgg sexual orientatn. In sum, gaydar really is a thg, that people are generally good at perceivg sexual orientatn om nonverbal cu.

Rather, gaydar taps to the same “people sense” we e to quickly size up those we enunter our daily liv.

GAYDAR

Usg "gaydar" as a way to talk jokgly about stereotypg trivializ , rearchers say. Studi suggt that the perpetuatn of the gaydar myth has untend nsequenc. Stereotyp often fluence the imprsns, whether ’s that a black man is dangero, a woman won’t be a good lear or a fashnable man is gay.

Stereotyp related to gay men and lbians often operate unr the guise of “gaydar” rather than stereotypg. “Gaydar” (a portmante of “gay” and “radar”) is a term that first appeared the 1980s and refers to a “sixth sense” for intifyg who is gay.

GAYDAR—SENDG MIXED SIGNALS

Like many purported tuns, however, gaydar often reli on stereotyp.

GAYDAR

While many people believe stereotypg is wrong, llg “gaydar” merely provis a ver for g stereotypil tras – like someone’s fashn sense, profsn or hairstyle – to jump to nclns about someone beg gay. Nohels, some rearchers have published studi that, at first glance, appear to show that people have accurate gaydar. In some recent work, my lleagu and I have been able to monstrate how the perpetuatn of the gaydar myth has untend negative nsequenc.

GAYDAR (N.)

We’ve also intified a mathematil flaw some prev gaydar rearch, llg to qutn the rults.

My lleagu and I spected that even people who would normally try to rea om stereotypg might be more likely to e gay stereotyp if they are led to believe they have gaydar. Why do some untri disapprove of homosexualy?

We told some participants that scientific evince says gaydar was a real abily, led others to believe that gaydar is jt another term for stereotypg and said nothg about gaydar to a third group (the ntrol). Participants then judged whether men were gay or straight based on rmatn ostensibly taken om social media profil. Some of the men had terts (or “lik”) that related to gay stereotyp, like fashn, shoppg or theater.

MEANG OF GAYDAR ENGLISH

This sign allowed to asss how often people jumped to the ncln that men were gay based on stereotypilly gay terts. Those who were told gaydar is real stereotyped much more than the ntrol group, and participants stereotyped much ls when they had been told that gaydar is jt another term for stereotypg. The patterns provid strong support for the ia that belief gaydar enurag stereotypg by simply disguisg unr a different label.

In some ways, the ia of gaydar – even if ’s jt stereotypg – seems eful at bt and harmls at worst.

GAYDAR

Usg gaydar as a way to talk nocuoly or jokgly about stereotypg – “Oh, that guy sets off my gaydar” – trivializ stereotypg and mak seem like no big al. Participants learned only one thg about this other person, eher that he was gay or simply liked shoppg (people tend to assume men who like shoppg are gay). In one ndn, therefore, the participants knew that the man was gay and the other they might have privately ferred that he was gay though wasn’t nfirmed, but that wasn’t known to anyone else (who might have acced them of beg prejudiced).

As we predicted, the vertly prejudiced people tend to rea om shockg the man who was nfirmed as gay, but livered extremely high levels of shocks to the man who liked shoppg. If they had shocked the first man, people uld acce them of prejudice (“You shocked him bee he was gay! But if others acced participants of prejudice the send ndn, uld be plsibly nied (“I didn’t thk he was gay!

Enuragg stereotypg unr the guise of gaydar ntribut – directly or directly – to stereotypg’s downstream nsequenc. Some rearchers say that stereotyp about gay people posss a gra of tth, which uld lend crence to the ia of havg accurate gaydar.

GAYDAR

In the studi, rearchers prented pictur, sound clips and vios of real gay and straight people to the participants, who then tegorized them as gay or straight. Half of the people the pictur, clips and vios were gay and half were straight, which meant that the participants would monstrate an accurate gaydar if their accuracy rate were signifintly higher than 50 percent. Ined, participants tend to have about 60 percent accuracy, and the rearchers nclud that people really do posss an accurate gaydar.

Many studi have replited the rults, wh their thors – and the media – toutg them as evince that gaydar exists. But as we’ve been able to show two recent papers, all of the prev studi fall prey to a mathematil error that, when rrected, actually leads to the oppose ncln: Most of the time, gaydar will be highly accurate. There’s a problem the basic premise of the studi: Namely, havg a pool of people which 50 percent of the targets are gay.