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GAYDAR: Your Facebook Friends Can Reveal Your Sexual Orientation

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“You can tell a lot about a person by looking at their friends. This is especially true when it comes to social networks such as Facebook, where – as two MIT students have shown – your friends’ sexual orientation can be used to determine yours , even if you haven’t explicitly disclosed it. For their unpublished study, titled Gaydar, MIT students Carter Jernigan and Behram Mistree scanned the …”

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GAYDAR: Your Facebook Friends Can Reveal Your Sexual Orientation

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Video – Colbert guest explains the science behind ‘gaydar’

The bulk of scientific research shows that being gay is a natural condition, not a choice, a guest on Stephen Colbert’s show who wrote a recent article about the science of “gaydar” said Tuesday.
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