Hi Benjamin Munson, who is cited in abstract, has done much work on this, along with others. Having a slow connection from Europe, I could not get access to papers. A couple of thoughts did cross my mind upon reading what I could. In some of the studies, samples of speech used were those rated by judges as most gay and most straight. Use of such stimuli would only allow conclusions about speech judged by others as gay or straight, but not conclusions about speech of gays and straights in general. But this does not appear to apply to other studies. By analogy to lie detectors, it would be important to know hit and false alarm rates, and then apply these to populations with relatively low base rates (perhaps about 5%? I know there is debate on this issue) of the state being detected (being gay). We could then figure out how well these cues work ... my prediction would be that high proportion of gay judgments would be false alarms. Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax [email protected]
>>> "Mike Palij" <[email protected]> 27-May-11 1:29 AM >>> There are news stories coming out now about a presentation made earlier this week at the meeting of Acoustical Society of America. What is a little odd is that when the abstract for the presentation was made public back on May 5, 2011, it attracted very little attention. Here's the 5/5 newsrelease and see if you can find the presentation that I'm referring to; http://www.newswise.com/articles/sound-research-at-acoustical-society-meeting Okay, here's the abstract and note that it is written and printed in an almost quaint way, with the numerous typos: http://asa.aip.org/web2/asa/abstracts/search.may11/asa257.html The newsmedia has started to play up this research, such as MSNBC: http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/23/6704680-gay-or-straight-his-speech-may-give-a-hint and the Chicago Sun-Times: http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/5497252-423/straight-or-gay-vowels-in-speech-may-give-it-away.html I predict numerous attempts to replicate this finding and straightforward extensions such as whether one can distinguish straight women from lesbians. In the meantime, mind your vowels. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a891720c9&n=T&l=tips&o=10736 or send a blank email to leave-10736-13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a89172...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=10742 or send a blank email to leave-10742-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
