This new target market is "metrosexual", a term coined a few years ago to identify straight urban men who enjoy such things as shopping and using beauty products.
But Matt Uyttendaele, one of the research scientists working on the project, explained to me in an interview that traditional computer vision researchers would approach this problem by looking to identify straight lines in a photo converging at a vanishing point (when two parallel lines appear to intersect).
Gays were no more likely than straights to guess correctly, but all listeners were more likely to correctly identify straight men by their voices than gay men.
Using GC-FID analysis of the C. elegans lipid extracts it was possible to identify straight chain fatty acids, branched chain fatty acids and cyclopropane fatty acids (Additional file 1: Table S5).
Someone may be married with children – but what is to be gained from being identified as "straight"?
"There are a couple of players we have identified and straight after the season has finished, we can talk to them".
For most of my life, I identified as "straight".
Up until meeting Merkle in January 2017, Goian identified as straight.
Despite their activities at the arcade, practically everyone who replied identified as "straight".
According to the results, 96.6percentt of respondents identified as straight, 1.6percentt identified as gay or lesbian and 0.7percentt identified as bisexual.
I never thought twice about holding hands or being affectionate (appropriately so) with a man when I identified as straight.
