Sounds Like There was No Sexual Orientation Discrimination? Attributions to Discrimination on the Basis of Auditory Gaydar

Figures & data

Table 1. Attributions by target condition (counts of open-ended responses) and mean (standard deviations) of ratings (Study 1).

	Lesbian	Gay	Straight	Straight
Target Sexuality	Women	Men	Women	Men
Target Gender	(n = 40)	(n = 40)	(n = 41)	(n = 40)
Open Ended - Attribution
Gender	24	1	19	9
Sexual Orientation	1	0	0	2
Ethnicity	2	5	1	4
Age	11	9	11	6
Professionalism	15	12	9	17
Experience	10	5	11	6
Vocal characteristic	8	5	2	1
Status	6	2	2	2
Other	7	13	6	8
Ratings
Gender Discrimination	3.70 (1.68)	2.51 (1.80)	3.63 (2.02)	2.63 (1.86)
Sexual Orientation Discrimination	2.53 (1.58)	2.73 (1.89)	2.63 (1.72)	2.25 (1.32)

Table 2. Attributions by target condition (counts of open-ended responses) and mean (standard deviations) of ratings (Study 2).

	Lesbian	Gay	Straight	Straight
Target Sexuality	Women	Men	Women	Men
Target Gender	(n = 61)	(n = 60)	(n = 62)	(n = 57)
Open Ended - Attribution
Gender	35	12	31	15
Sexual Orientation	2	2	0	0
Ethnicity	1	5	0	2
Age	19	14	17	5
Enthusiasm	15	8	7	6
Experience	7	9	9	9
Confidence	4	4	1	5
Professionalism	5	3	1	5
Vocal characteristic	9	6	1	5
Appearance	2	0	0	1
Other	6	14	8	14
Ratings
Gender	4.73 (1.59)	2.61 (1.63)	4.26 (1.81)	3.11 (1.86)
Sexual orientation	3.10 (1.58)	2.95 (1.49)	2.60 (1.56)	2.44 (1.56)
Age	4.62 (1.57)	4.10 (1.79(	4.74 (1.65)	3.63 (1.84)
Ethnicity	3.20 (1.57)	3.05 (1.56)	2.97 (1.64)	2.75 (1.66)
Religion	2.77 (1.42)	2.78 (1.41)	2.34 (1.46)	2.39 (1.46)
Accent	3.25 (1.72)	3.54 (1.81)	2.71 (1.54)	2.75 (1.66)
Social class	3.73 (1.69)	3.64 (1.63)	2.98 (1.57)	2.96 (1.76)
Lack of competence	4.35 (1.80)	4.14 (1.65)	4.02 (1.76)	3.95 (1.75)
Lack of professionalism	4.70 (1.65)	4.49 (1.58)	4.03 (1.81)	4.30 (1,76)
Lack of experience	4.78 (1.79)	4.22 (1.67)	4.68 (1.79)	3.96 (1.92)