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Women Get Lots of Info From Male Faces

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the eye-of-the-beholder dept.

dtjohnson writes "Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have found that women have a remarkable ability to assess a man's testosterone levels and his interest in fathering children by looking at his facial features. Sixty-nine percent of the women were able to correctly judge a man's interest in having children merely by looking at cues on photograph's of his facial features. Saliva samples were also taken from each man in the study and tested for testosterone with a $2,000-a-pop test. The women in the study were able to correctly identify the men with the highest testosterone levels just by looking at their photographs. Of course, the study did not look at what men were able to tell about women by looking at photographs of their female body parts."

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  1. beards by mikesd81 · · Score: 4, Funny

    And men with beards? What do they want?

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  2. Re:sensationalisation sucks by Teach · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am God ...try prove otherwise.

    God doesn't leave out grammatically-significant prepositions.

    QED

    :)

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  3. Hidden messages... by pyrrhonist · · Score: 4, Funny
    Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have found that women have a remarkable ability to assess a man's testosterone levels and his interest in fathering children by looking at his facial features. Sixty-nine percent...

    Sorry, I just couldn't concentrate.

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    Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
  4. Re:Small sample size? by Neil+Blender · · Score: 4, Funny

    You ever hear of a one sample t-test? You can prove whether or not something is significant with only one sample! You don't even need something to compare it to! Oh, wait - no you can't. That's not what a one sample t-test is at all. Either way, you can do some amazing shit with statistics. Especially if you don't understand what you are doing.

  5. Re:sensationalisation sucks by Schraegstrichpunkt · · Score: 4, Funny
    In addition to proper grammar, I'd think that God would pay attention to spelling as well.

    God's speling is korrekt. It's you're speling taht's wrong.

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  6. W....t..f? by Schraegstrichpunkt · · Score: 4, Funny
    From the article:
    About nine out of 10 men chose the baby picture, roughly 12 percent expressed no interest in the baby picture, and the remaining subjects had a range of interest.

    Words cannot express my bewilderment.

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  7. Originally Read: Women Get Lots From Male Faces by TheBashar · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Sit on my face and tell me that you love me." --Monty Python

  8. Re:Slashdot using daily nexus as source? by Bacon+Bits · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're getting your news from a site that currently has a Pirate vs Ninja poll on the front page.

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  9. Re:sensationalisation sucks by tverbeek · · Score: 4, Funny
    It's one half of the full infinitive "to prove," making it a particle.

    But it sometimes behaves as if it were a wave.

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