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Pupil dilation
Nihil est novum sub sole - In China, for centuries part of the 'tradecraft' of jade and furniture merchants was to watch pupil dilation as a 'tell' to guage if a customer was interested in a particular piece (and adjust the price accordingly) - and customers would take great effort in masking their responses.
Posted by CrimeDog
10th Aug
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The benefit of this new method of detecting sexuality,
"The benefit of this new method of detecting sexuality, "

The whole tone of the article, makes it sound like some sort of police sobriety-style test - If you fail, do you get written up for a ticket in Salt Lake City?
Posted by neil.postlethwaite@...
Updated - 10th Aug
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Study
It's still junk science, ripe for abuse.
Posted by suwanavi@...
10th Aug
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Junk science?
Junk science is whatever research has a result you don't like. Personally, I like anything that makes it harder for people to lie about their orientation(s). Imagine all the right-wing family values types, walking around with their eyes shut: "Please don't measure my pupils, please don't measure my pupils..."
Posted by adamjrichards
10th Aug
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how much
did we pay for tis crap.
Posted by sarai1313@...
10th Aug
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Pupil Dilation
Lots of things dilate the pupils:
Death
Getting the crap scared out of you
seeing something you like
seeing something you don't like
I honestly do not see the logic in a government funded university wasting our money to study something that is already debatable.
Posted by Arctic Char
10th Aug
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It is worth the money.
This maybe will shut up the morality police, the GOP and religions will have to quit chastising people for the way they were born. Why it is so hard for them to accept this in this day and age I cannot fathom. If people can be born with both female and male body parts, why is it so hard to believe their brains may not have developed differently than how their body is physically?
Posted by dennyinusa
10th Aug
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Off topic.
This does not concern the morality of a persons sexuality.

denny is pointing out, what I agree with, is that many things can make the pupils dilate. The accuracy of this studys conclusions are questionable at best.

They could have flagged a subject as gay because of how their pupils dilated when the actual cause might have been their revulsion to the subject matter.

Your attitude is not very open minded about having a science based discussion. You went right to claiming bigotry when the discussion was in a science direction.

Cry wolf much? Like playing the victim card often?

Pathetic way to live. Always claiming to be a victim.
Posted by Hates Idiots
13th Aug
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everyone is born BI
all this proves is what I've known for decades...everyone is born bi...your environment, religion and/or your peers direct you to one direction or another. OR you find yourself unaffected by those forces. Bisexuality is evident from birth and doesn't actually go away...it's just masked or diverted
Posted by harleybud73
10th Aug
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Biased study?
The study mentions bisexual women.
They do not mention bisexual men.
Why?
There are no bisexual men?
Posted by David Traversa
Updated - 12th Dec
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