Gaydar is Bullshit; based on stereotyping, generalization, collectivization and false assumptions.

A vast number of people have the idea they can tell if someone is gay without asking them. That there are certain indicators of someones sexual orientation which you can identify in a person. However, recent research done by University of Wisconsin at Madison Department of Psychology researchers completely debunks the so-called idea of Gaydar. Gaydar is based on stereotyping and false assumptions. Not only that, but, previous studies had completely faulty samples that do not match the real world they were supposed to be studying.

"We’ve been able to show in two recent papers, all of these previous studies fall prey to a mathematical error that, when corrected, actually leads to the opposite conclusion: Most of the time, gaydar will be highly inaccurate.

How can this be, if people in these studies are accurate at rates significantly higher than 50 percent?

There’s a problem in the basic premise of these studies: Namely, having a pool of people in which 50 percent of the targets are gay. In the real world, only around 3 to 8 percent of adults identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual.

What does this mean for interpreting the 60 percent accuracy rate? Think about what the 60 percent accuracy means for the straight targets in these studies. If people have 60 percent accuracy in identifying who is straight, it means that 40 percent of the time, straight people are incorrectly categorized. In a world where 95 percent of people are straight, 60 percent accuracy means that for every 100 people, there will be 38 straight people incorrectly assumed to be gay, but only three gay people correctly categorized."

I will go even further and say there is even more of a good chance you are wrong than they mentioned in their research. This is due to the fact that from a statistical and math point of view most of the LGB is actually the B, and, in the research on people whom are bisexual or with bi tendencies identify as mostly straight. Most people whom have or had same-sex attractions fall under the mostly heterosexual category. With this taken into affect your chances of being right in your assumptions about someones orientation being gay goes down even more in a real world situation.

University of Wisconsin at Madison Department of Psychology researchers found that “Those who were told gaydar is real stereotyped much more than the control group, and participants stereotyped much less when they had been told that gaydar is just another term for stereotyping.”

I go once again even further and doubt previous studies as they so highly used young children's actions as connected to adult orientation. Previous studies looked at everything from play styles to how one sets their legs when sitting down as proofs of gayness. A young boy wanting to play game show host does not indicate anything about what sexuality they will grow up to have. Also, people of all 3 sexual orientations sit with their legs in different ways. Looking as vocal fluidity and voice pitch or talking is also flawed. It is possible a straight man whom learned to talk from a family made up of mostly women might have picked up their talking mannerisms when they learned to speak. Same for someones walk. As one could pick up the mannerisms of those around them when learning to walk. Correlation is not causation; scientific method 101.
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https://aksarbent.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-big-flaw-in-stanfords-junky.html
https://www.queerty.com/sorry-guys-science-confirms-gaydar-isnt-real-20170318
http://aksarbent.blogspot.com/2017/03/gaydar-myth-busted-by-u-of-wi-madison.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26219212
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224499.2017.1278570
https://theconversation.com/debunking-the-gaydar-myth-73750