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People can judge with surprising accuracy whether someone is gay or straight — even when they're looking at a black-and-white photograph, cropped of hair and identifying marks, and presented upside down. The findings from a University of Washington study suggest people use a combination of clues from individual facial features and from the way those features fit together to make snap judgments about sexual orientation , said researcher Joshua Tabak, a graduate student in psychology. Tabak's is not the first study to find that people can correctly guess a person's sexual orientation from a photograph more often than just by chance. This "gaydar" isn't infallible: The rate of correct guesses is usually in the high 50 percent to mid percent range, Tabak said.

Back to Lifestyle and exercise. The research found that students were able correctly to determine sexual orientation slightly more often than could be put down to chance. The research suggests that people may unconsciously make judgements about sexual orientation when seeing a face for the first time. Based on this study, the headline that "most people have a gaydar" is misleading.

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