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Pretty Women Scramble Men's Sense Of The Future
Adam_Trask writes "Psychologists in Canada have finally proved what women have long suspected - men really are irrational enough to risk entire kingdoms to catch sight of a beautiful face." The methodology is not air-tight, but how many scientists figure out a way to use Am I Hot or Not at work? See also "Women Live Longer Because Men Are Dumb."
Firstly: "Psychologists in Canada" + "The methodology is not air-tight" = verifiably-true???!?!?!
"But we hypothesise that viewing pictures of pretty women was mildly arousing"
Duh! Thats what the internet was invented for...
"If there's the prospect of getting a very [strike]attractive[/strike] rich partner it may pay a man to take more risks than if an average partner was available."
Thats better...
"If you are less attractive, with few potential partners, then it pays to take risks"
I.e, go for the cute ones! Nice...thats where I am going wrong...lol
Is it a boat?
I'm going to do some blatant karma whoring here so my status will fsdfjdfflll.... Wow! Lookit you! What's your name cutie? What am I reading? Slashsomething - it doesn't matter. You have gorgeous eyes.
US Democracy:The best person for the job (among These pre-selected choices...)
I don't know if scientists have a name for this most delicious of male irrationalities, but I like to call it the Jerry Springer Phenomenon.
In other news today, the Earth has been reported to be round!
What are those? Whats this pretty? Is it like a simple command line or like a Gui..
The news item title sounds like a description of the "plot complication" in "Back to the Future III" where Doc Brown meets the schoolteacher.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
"Pretty Women Scramble Men's Sense Of The Future"
No where is this more apparent than comparing the work of Noastramus before, and after, he met the fetching Marie Rocque on a trip to Nice.
Previous to this, his qautraines were known for their poetic quality and predictive power.
After Cupid's arrow struck him, his writings were reduced to doggerell of no predictive ability, such as "Purple space alien destroy Russia in 1983", "Small Bears of Shicageau Win World Series 2001", "Cylons Led by Picard Destroy Babylon 4 in 2525", and "Matrix III Better than Matrix I".
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Now you have to forget that you ever knew that minor fact because if you keep thinking about it you might someday start looking at what she sold you.
wait did I say that out loud???
Ok, now we just have to shoot him, since he can't propogate this knowledge...
'And all the monkeys aren't in the zoo Every day you meet quite a few...'
I would have found it much more interesting
if the study had included the impact of exposure
to statistically attractive males and females
to both male and female subjects.
I see you're neither a Psycholog/Sociology grad student nor a professional researcher in the field. If you were, you would instead think, "A ha! Now I know my thesis/next paper!"
But, yes, the cool thing is that you can take the results from earlier experiments and, preferably after appropriate verification of reproducibility, extend the experiment to include the new factors. I am sure someone will do this, but I doubt it will receive as much press as the original study. Unless it proves that all women are lesbians, in which case it'll probably get much wider coverage.
=Brian
There is nothing so good that someone, somewhere, will not hate it.
Mmmmm... "statistically attractive".
One would be hard pressed to find another phrase so succinct, and yet containing so much "essence of UberDork".
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
-1: Showoff :-)
That's really easy. Beer often helps you get sex. Marketers and consumers know this, so their commercials are "hey drink this, get laid".
I would venture to say that the number of times someone has gotten laid because of their computer components is around 10. And 6 of those were probably Steve Jobs.
post a link to her picture & we'll mod your karma to the moon!