professor who says facial recognition ​​can tell if you're gay

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... ?CMP=fb_gu

He also claims it can discover politics, IQ, maybe even prediliction to commit certain crimes.

So basically a hip new way of presenting physiognomy and eugenics.

[Worffan101]

Another self-aggrandizing hack gets media attention by saying something idiotic very loudly.

News at 11.

[Deledrius]

So basically a hip new way of presenting physiognomy and eugenics.

Another self-aggrandizing hack gets media attention by saying something idiotic very loudly.

Basically. Unfortunately a lot of "science" reporting is viewed as fluff pieces, and credulity never even seems to be a factor on whether to run the story and how to treat the claims it makes.

[Antiboyscout]

Facial recognition No. Body-language Yes.

I think the average person somewhere around 70% accurate in determining if someone is gay based solely on how they sit in a chair.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Facial recognition No. Body-language Yes.

I think the average person somewhere around 70% accurate in determining if someone is gay based solely on how they sit in a chair.

You're just...gonna say that. You're really owning those words? That's something you typed and posted, without being coerced, in the Year of Somebody's Lord 2018?

You honestly believe the thing you said?

[Antiboyscout]

Facial recognition No. Body-language Yes.

I think the average person somewhere around 70% accurate in determining if someone is gay based solely on how they sit in a chair.

You're just...gonna say that. You're really owning those words? That's something you typed and posted, without being coerced, in the Year of Somebody's Lord 2018?

You honestly believe the thing you said?

My memory was a bit off so here are some sources

https://kinseyinstitute.org/news-events ... gaydar.php
"Most gaydar studies are set up so that participants would be correct 50% of the time were they to rely on chance guessing. Participants typically do quite a bit better than this, though, with average accuracy rates in the range of 62-64%"

Starting at the 7:00 minute mark

youtu.be/b5iEnZt2t7k

aprox. 80% accuracy

[Madner Kami]

Nah, it's impossible to deduce someone's inner workings by observing his or her behaviour. After all, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it most certainly must be a goose

[Worffan101]

I usually sit in a chair with my legs crossed and my hands in my lap, and rarely if ever talk about sports. Does that make me gay?

Seriously, the only kind of behavior that can tell you someone's gay for sure is if they are visibly hitting on another dude. That's...that's how sexuality works, you guys.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

If it was possible to tell who is gay just by the way they sit, I assure you, a lot more of us would have been murdered by our parents or peers by now.

[Antiboyscout]

I usually sit in a chair with my legs crossed and my hands in my lap, and rarely if ever talk about sports. Does that make me gay?

Seriously, the only kind of behavior that can tell you someone's gay for sure is if they are visibly hitting on another dude. That's...that's how sexuality works, you guys.

60-80% accuracy
It's at least better than a guess