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May 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Tamara Cohen
16:00 EST, 15 May 2012
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19:14 EST, 16 May 2012
All in a face? The study suggests people can judge sexuality in the blink of an eye (file photo)
They say you can tell a lot about someone from a first impression.
Apparently many of us can even guess whether a person is gay or straight after only a brief glimpse of their face, a study suggests.
Researchers found most people they tested had an inbuilt ‘gaydar’.
Participants were shown images of faces, free of make-up, jewellery or hair, which may have given clues.
They guessed the gay men correctly 57 per cent of the time, and gay women 65 per cent of the time.
Each of the 129 college students surveyed saw 96 photos.
Subjects with facial hair, glasses and makeup were not used in the study to prevent ‘easy clues’.
The pictures were also cropped so that hairstyles were not visible.
The study, published in the online Public Library of Science, suggests that we unconsciously make decisions about whether someone is gay or straight every time we meet a new person.
Psychologist Joshua Tabak, who led the study at Washington University, said the results suggested there may be an instinctive feel for sexuality.
The study found it was less easy to judge a man’s sexuality than a woman’s (file photo)
He said: ‘It may be similar to how we don’t have to think about whether someone is a man or a woman or black or white.
‘This information confronts us in everyday life.’
The study, published in journal PLoS ONE, attributed the lower score for men to the participants making more ‘false alarm’ errors.
Mr Tabak said they could have been more likely to mistake straight men for gay because they were more familiar with the concept of gay men than they were of lesbians.
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Another persons sexuality is only important if you want to have sex with them. It’s irrelevant otherwise.
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Those you can tell in a blink, want you to know. Some like Ellen DeGeneres takes about a minute to work out. Some, you could never figure it out.
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So what, who cares so long as any sexuality is not forced in your face or upon you. Be mush more valuable if we could tell which politicians are being honest and which ones are just out for all they can get.
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To – David Thomas, North Wales, 16/5/2012 Do homosexuals find it any easier than heterosexuals to guess whether someone else is homosexual ?…………… I would think they might be better at it. According to my gay nephew, he can always tell when someone is gay. I certainly cannot.
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I’m gay and most people don’t know it unless I tell them. And then some people (mostly women) even get disappointed because I’m not like the stereotype: “What do you mean you don’t want to go shopping? What do you mean you don’t know anything about fashion?!…Ugh your as useless as my boyfriend!”. Sad but true, ha ha – Steve, Wirral , 16/5/2012 13:41………………….. brilliant comment, it just goes to show how much we base assumptions on our own stereotypes. Like you, no-one knows I’m bisexual unless I tell them – I never bother – I can’t be bothered with other people’s stereotypes and disappointment when I don’t fit the bill. Someone once looked suprised when I said I am bi and in an exclusive relationship with a man (I’m female), there seems to be some ridiculous misconception that anyone who is bisexual is incapable of monogamy……….. sorry if I break your comfortable stereotypes and force you to think rather than rely on what society feeds you!
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What a remarkable skill. Is it something to do with evolution? Or is it a load of old tosh?
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This is a load of bull. Unless you’re the stereotype most people haven’t a clue.
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Do homosexuals find it any easier than heterosexuals to guess whether someone else is homosexual ?
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This presumes people are born that way. Many disagree with this assumption.
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If this is true, then why is it that, apart from the Hollywood set, no-one knew of Rock Hudson’s ‘gayity’ until his AIDS related illness in the early Eighties.
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