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Researchers Discover Irresistible Dance Moves
sciencehabit writes "To find out if certain dance moves are more attractive to women than others, researchers recruited a bunch of college guys and used motion-capture to create avatars of them dancing. When women watched the avatars (2 videos included in story), the men they found most attractive were those who kept their heads and torsos moving without flailing their arms and legs. The researchers say dancing is thus an honest signal to women of the man's strength and health, just as it is in crabs and hummingbirds, who also move in special ways to attract mates."
the men they found most attractive were those who kept their heads and torsos moving without flailing their arms and legs
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...make sure your avatar dances like the example on the bottom. Otherwise, you're never going to pretend to get laid.
> without flailing their arms and legs
That's all well and good for impressing the ladies, but how then am I supposed to scare of my competition?
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"Kept their heads and torsos moving without flailing their arms and legs" seems useful in adapting our ways to attracting mates, though. Seems like the moves might be quite doable while sitting on a couch.
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My mother asked me why our generation never came up with any dances. Her generation had the Twist, the Mashed Potato, etc.
I replied that Micheal Jackson killed dance. Nobody else could move like him, so we all gave up and just mosh and twitch randomly.
What, no analysis of social dancing? Ya know, dancing with girls? With a lead and a follow?
I guess that kind of research will have to wait for a scientist willing to ask a girl to dance... might take a while.
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How to score chicks
1) Cut off own arms and legs; leave head connected.
2) Flail
3) Commence to tapping ass
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Imagine for a second that you're a woman getting drilled away by a perfect mate, how much of that guy are you going to see? Pretty much just his torso, head, and arms, right? That would explain why the legs are unimportant in teh decision making process.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
who are you to tell techno-viking he can't dance?
They're using their grammar skills there.