I can kind of tell gay men from straight and gay women stand out a mile off. Bi, no so easily.
On a similar not, are any of you men out there like me in that you are almost completely unable to tell whether a bloke is physically attractive or not? Aside from the obvious Brad Pitt's of the world, I have no idea whether women or men would find another guy attractive just by looking at them. It makes it really hard for me to judge whether people might find me attractive or stylish or neither.
Are you really that good at spotting sexual orientation ? or do you just think your good.
In this scene it is much easier because such a high % of women are bisexual, probably around 98%, so few in swinging are gay.
With men the % is lower but it has to be between 30 and 40% of men being bisexual and as with the women few being gay.
Now many gay men and women are easy to spot by thier mannerisms but this test was carried out with only face pictures not even hairstyles showing, how well do you think you would score on spotting gay people then ?
If you went to a Greenhouse (gay saunas owned by the same Company that owns Chameleons and located in 3 areas of the Country, how many men do you think you could you identify as being Gay as opposed to bisexual ?
The next test, go to Tesco's or Asda and how many people do you think you could identify into the brackets of Gay or bisexual either as males or females ?
And finally get someone to gather 100 pictures from the internet where thier sexuality is known and have them crop them to face only pics, see how you do in the experiment.
Yes I believe Gaydar exists in equal proportions with both men and women having the ability but would be surprised that it is so accurate when based only on facial pictures
It is a bit of a daft test really... When do you ever first lay eyes on someone as a face only (other than in tests like this)? most photos of people have more than just a face, but the reality is most (or at least everyone I've met...) people are slightly more animated than a single-frame snapshot...
think we as humans see what we want to see. sometimes it is obvious and sometimes it is not.
i wonder how much money it cost for these scientists to discover this nonsense.
Take the millions of dollars the USA (NASA) spent in the early days of space travel developing a pen that could write in the weightless atmosphere created in spacecraft, huge funds and times went into the research and development of such a pen and they did finally achieve thier goal, a pen that could pump ink and write in a weightless environment, fantastic, and they proudly announced thier achievement to the world, and the Russian space agency quickly replied with
Also I have heard it said that much of the impetus for the development of Digital Integrated Circuits in the US arose due to the requirements of NASA for the Apollo program. This then lead to a new industry that benefited American tax payer far more than the initial investment.
I guess pure research is a bit like swinging. After a bit of thinking, you gamble the money, time and effort, enjoy the gamble at the time, and anything else is a bonus.
But I like urban myths they are such fun why do people insist on breaking the bubbles.
The space projects research has brought us an awfull lot though, the funds available to make products needed by NASA were a lot more that those that would have been available to develop certain products/
Take the humble sink, ICI were tasked with making a product for NASA that was very heat resistant and could be shaped as required.
The came up with what they trademarm called Asterite, a mixture of sand and silicones that when hot can be moulded and when cold was as near tough as granite, wether the stuff was ever used for the space project I don't know but because of its possibilities in the project the research funds were made available, once the product was known ICI search for other uses that it can be used for besides flying through space, and hey presto we have what looks like a plastic sink that is heat and scratch resistant beyond most existing products of the time.
I remember an old advert on TV that listed products that we use everyday that were developed using space project research funding and the list was pretty amazing.
My wonder at the space project now is ...... have we gone far enough, the ability to put satellites into orbit has made amazing differences to the planet (for example we have a thing called the internet) but is travelling to mars and jupiter going to give us anymore ? would we now be better off putting that research time and funds into checking out what is here on earth, or more importantly inside it, under the sea, we know there are vast resources still untouched, coal, gas, precious metals etc, many are just too expensive to mine at this time but with new developments perhaps we could put an end to resource shortages pretty soon, maybe we can develop underwater farms in areas where the sea is abundant but drought is rife, maybe it is time to put that NASA money into checking out our own unxeplored and undiscovered planet.
As I understand it a ballpoint pen is not dependent on gravity to function,however when placed upside down gravity may well prevent it from functioning ... in space gravity is not a factor
I tend not to be surprised, put it that way. 
