If sexual orientatn is blogil, are the tras that make people seem gay nate, too? The new rearch on everythg om voice pch to hair whorl.
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- QUTN: 1. A GEILLY FLUENCED UNTERCLOCKWISE HAIR WHORL IS LIKELY TO BE A CHARACTERIST OF MEN WHO AREA) RIGHT-HAND.B)NOT RIGHT-HAND.C)GAY.D)STRAIGHT.14. PEOPLE'S DISLIKE OF NOVEL FOODS BT ILLTRATA) UN BIAS.B) NEOPHOBIA.C) HOMEOSTASIS.D) THE REACTORY PERD.15. THE PRACTICE OF 360-GREE FEEDBACK IS PECIALLY LIKELY TO VOLVEA)
- THE SCIENCE OF GAYDAR
- GAY MOSW · CY GUI
- GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
- MOSW GAY MAP
QUTN: 1. A GEILLY FLUENCED UNTERCLOCKWISE HAIR WHORL IS LIKELY TO BE A CHARACTERIST OF MEN WHO AREA) RIGHT-HAND.B)NOT RIGHT-HAND.C)GAY.D)STRAIGHT.14. PEOPLE'S DISLIKE OF NOVEL FOODS BT ILLTRATA) UN BIAS.B) NEOPHOBIA.C) HOMEOSTASIS.D) THE REACTORY PERD.15. THE PRACTICE OF 360-GREE FEEDBACK IS PECIALLY LIKELY TO VOLVEA)
David France, who is so gay that he -wrote Jim "Gay Amerin" McGreevey's The Confsn, has a long examatn of the (psdo)science behd gaydar New York mag. It's endlsly long and ntas few revelatns—the ultimate ncln is that sexualy is "about your soul." But if you're really terted lookg for physil signs of a gay gene, the article talks about three fun on: "gay accent," lbo-hands (x fger longer than rg fger), and hair whorl (gay men's may tend to go unterclockwise). The article c a whorl study of "more than 50" short-haired gay men that took place at a pri ftival, about 23 percent of whom had unterclockwise hair whorls. How scientific and nclive! We cid to aid the rearch by takg a long, hard look at (who else?) ourselv. * counterclockwise hair whorl gay *
The thors took digal photographs of parietal surface hair whorls om 100 heterosexual men and 100 homosexual men who were predomantly right-hand.
The thors found no signifint difference between heterosexual and homosexual men hair whorl directn, but the thors did replite the aternal birth orr effect (more olr brothers for homosexual men). While hair whorl is ocsnally ed to illtrate basic geics, gets more attentn bee some studi have suggted that unterclockwise whorls are more mon left-hand people than right-hand, and other studi have suggted that unterclockwise whorls are more mon gay men than straight men.
Klar (2004) surreptly rerd the directn of hair whorl at a beach near Rehoboth Beach, Delaware that is popular among gay men. " However, two more rigoro studi did not fd a signifint difference between gay and straight men the proportn of unterclockwise whorls.
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(2010) separated gay and straight men based on a qutnnaire, not which beach they went to, and termed their whorl type based on close examatn, not om a distance. In both studi, the observer termed whether the whorl was clockwise or unterclockwise whout knowg whether the subject was gay or straight, which may be an important difference between the studi and that of Klar (2004).
Whout beg aware of , most people n accurately intify gay men by face aloneAlthough I've always wanted this particular superhuman power, I've never been very good at tectg other men's sexual orientatn. Fdgs om a recent study published the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, however, suggt I may be unrtimatg my gaydar abili.
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In an ial experiment, rearchers Nicholas Rule and Nali Ambady om Tufts Universy pesed onle datg s and refully selected 45 straight male fac and 45 gay male fac. The 90 fac were then shown to 90 participants random orr, who were asked simply to judge the target's "probable sexual orientatn" (gay or straight) by prsg a button.
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"Th, " the thors wrote, "by g photos of gay and straight dividuals that they themselv did not post, we were able to remove the fluence of self-prentatn and much of the potential selectn bias that may be prent photos om personal advertisements. And even wh the more strgent ntrols, the participants were able to intify the gay fac at levels greater than chance—aga even on those trials where the fac were flickered on the screen for a mere 50 lisends.
For example, when shown only the eye regn ("whout brows and cropped to the outer nthi so that not even "crow's-feet" were visible"), perceivers were amazgly still able to accurately intify a man as beg gay.
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But they also acknowledge that 's impossible to know om the fdgs what exactly is about the facial featur that give gays away. I was cur enough about Rule's fdgs to look up "gay face" the Urban Dictnary, a popular Web se that offers rmal, er-ntributed fns of everyday (often crass) saygs.
"A man, ually homosexual, wh a distctly effete facial stcture wh some very specific featur; a strong jawle [sic] that lacks promence, space between the ey that rell people wh down syndrome [sic], and a slopg, long forehead.