SORRY, THE COMPUTER SAYS YOU’RE GAY

A new study from Stanford University found that a computer could correctly distinguish between gay and straight men 81% of the time, and 74% for women. Researchers fed into a computer more than 35,000 facial images that men and women publicly posted on a U.S. dating website. The computer analyzed the facial features and began to recognize certain similarities. The computer found that gay men and women tended to have “gender-atypical” features, expressions and “grooming styles”, essentially meaning gay men appeared more feminine and gay women appeared more masculine. (* What would we do without computers, huh?) The data also identified certain trends, including that gay men had narrower jaws, longer noses and larger foreheads than straight men, and that gay women had larger jaws and smaller foreheads compared to straight women. Human judges performed much worse than the computer algorithm, accurately identifying orientation only 61% of the time for men and 54% for women. The research was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
* What kind of computer did they use? A (G)Acer? IBM-LGBTQ? Toshi-male? (Toe-SHE-male, instead of Toshiba)
* I see the makings of a really interesting celebrity game show.
* Fortunately there’s no way can this program can possibly be used for evil purposes.
* On the other hand, the computer was able to hook up 90 percent of those 35,000 people into happy couples.
* “Narrower jaws, longer noses and larger foreheads”? I KNEW Megamind was gay!