Nope. I’m not making this one up.
The people with big craniums/ triple doctorates / while maintaining their virginity at MIT have struck research gold. The researchers Carter Jernigan and Behram Mistree developed a wonderful piece of software that can examine Facebook users by looking over Flicker photo images, chats, and searches to find out their sexual orientation.
Out of 947 Facebook profiles the software examined it found 10 gay men, each of which confirm the software findings. None of the men had state on their orientation in their profile.
The software goes beyond just sexual orientation. The program finds connections to each profile and examines general and specific Facebook affiliations (groups/ music/politics) therefore being able to determine if someone might be a terrorist or or even worse… a car salesman.
If you are looking for a great read on “Project Gaydar” check out Boston Globe’s article on it:
