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Women Get Lots of Info From Male Faces
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."
... then why are we so often told the female initiated divorce rate is so high (over 50% when I heard last. sorry no sources). If they were *that* good at picking spouses, then you'd think that you'd see more guys initiating divorces than women, right ?
... more than a little harsh in my view).
Am I missing something ? (and please spare the "women don't know what they want" comments
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Well, it's sad that this seems to be quite often the problem with psychological and sociological research. The researchers present groundbreaking results about the human nature and when you look at their methods you find the results are based one nothing more than random results from a much to small sample...
The good old Cargo Cult Science
The summary is indeed ridiculous.
"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."
Of course they didn't, nay, COULDN'T look into that aspect. It would have to take into account the vast amounts of physical alterations that women have done to them these days, be it botox, a ton of makeup, boob-jobs, tramp stamps, nose jobs, etc. In that regard, it would be pretty difficult, if not impossible, to tell anything about one's "genes" from a photograph. While vastly more prevelent in females, it's working its weay into males as well.
When I was a teenager, an attractive friend of mine had herself a nose-job at age 16... it was a major event back then, but that seems like nothing these days.
A buddy of mine, age 36, just had liposuction to remove his "spare-tire", it was outpatient surgury. Imagine that... a human body being invaded by foreign objects and literally pounds of material being removed... and it's considered so comon that it's outpatient surgery.
...Rob
The American Dream isn't an SUV and a house in the suburbs; it's Don't Tread On Me.
"This study wasn't looking at which men women would really date - it looked at their reaction to pictures. Whooptefreakingdo."
Getting your foot into the door has nothing to do with dating?
"Perhaps I'm spoiled by having a lot of intelligent female friends, but we're looking for someone to spend time with, not just someone to make a baby with."
TFA says you're actually looking for both, someone "to spend time with" but then somebody else to make a baby with on the side. None of your friends have ever done anything that can be described as this?
Even if not, I have my own anecdotal evidence to counter yours, a friend whose fiance cheated on him and got pregnant; he found out and yet she still managed to convince him to go through with the wedding.
Of course, I also know another guy who went into a very bad marriage solely because of cleavage as well.
There was a study pointed to by /. conducted in England that showed that a woman's first and last child was significantly less likely to be her husband's and that the lower her socio-economic class was the more likely as well, rate as high as 30% were found. The biological fathers were more likely to be of higher class than the husband.
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