gaydar
pronunciation
How to pronounce gaydar in British English:
UK [ˈgeɪdɑ:(r)]
How to pronounce gaydar in American English:
US
Word Origin
- gaydar (n.)
- by 1996, in gay literature, from gay + radar.
Example
- 1. Should you trust your gaydar in everyday life ?
- 2. In our experiments , average gaydar judgment accuracy was only in the 60 percent range .
- 3. Though gaydar may not be driven by homophobia , it is relevant to discrimination policy .
- 4. An mit experiment dubbed , " gaydar " by creators carter jernigan and behram mistree has employed computational analysis to identify user traits based on information listed by their facebook friends .
- 5. Our research , published recently in the peer-reviewed journal plos one , shows that gaydar is indeed real and that its accuracy is driven by sensitivity to individual facial features as well as the spatial relationships among facial features .