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Two MIT grads have asserted that through a "gaydar" software program they developed, savvy web surfers touching down at the Facebook site may be able to determine the sexual persuasion of members, without hearing a snippet of their lisping voice or even spying a flap of a wrist!
The tell-tale smoking gun rests in the realm of an individual's friends, according to researchers Carter Jernigan and Behram Mistree.
One of their theories is based on what is commonly referred to as a homophily.
In a nutshell, the practice underscores that the male animal tends to stick with those of the same kind, if he had his druthers.
In a research study consisting of - 1544 straight men, 21 bisexual men and 33 gay men - the findings determined that gay men proportionally have more homosexual friends than their butch (?) alleged counterparts (male breeders).
According to the gaydar stats, 4.6 percent of the dudes on a homosexual's friends list are of the gay persuasion. On the other hand, a straight male appears to have stretched his comfort level if over .07 percent of the friends on his list are gay.
I assume, for obvious reasons, that no attention was paid to trendy "do's" or color-coordinated outfits when the researchers surveyed the facebook prowling grounds.
In a nutshell, based on the information gathered, the brainy twosome argue that by using the homophily theory, it is wholley possible for the carousing Don Juan (interested in hooking up) to correctly classify 78 percent of the gay men and 88 percent of the straight guys without much drama rearing its ugly - um - head.
A number of issues were raised, but not intriguing enough to post here, I dare say.
Except for one niggling little bit of information.
"We did this work to inform users that they could be indirectly disclosing information about themselves that they didn't realize," Behram Mistree confidented in an e-mail.
For the "out" - loose-as-a-goose drama Queen - t is a little late to be concerned about that.
It's quite another tawdry mystery-ridden tale for someone like Ryan Seacrest, who has had the good fortune to date to be labelled a Metrosexual Male, for now.
Oh, to be a fly on the wall, at his digs!
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