Gaydar and the Fallacy of Decontextualized Measurement
Recent media coverage of studies about "gaydar," the supposed ability to detect another's sexual orientation through visual cues, reveal problems in which the ideals of scientific precision strip the context from intrinsically social phenomena. This fallacy of objective measurement, a...
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| Language: | English |
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Society for Sociological Science
2018-05-01
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| Series: | Sociological Science |
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| Online Access: | https://www.sociologicalscience.com/articles-v5-12-270/ |