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Scientists Find Gene That Predicts Happiness In Women
An anonymous reader writes "For reasons that scientists have not conclusively determined, women are happier than men. And now, researchers think that they may have pinpointed one of the reasons for that. They have found a gene in women that predicts the level of happiness in women. 'After controlling for various factors, ranging from age and education to income, the researchers found that women with the low-expression type of MAOA were significantly happier than others. Compared to women with no copies of the low-expression version of the MAOA gene, women with one copy scored higher on the happiness scale and those with two copies increased their score even more. While a substantial number of men carried a copy of the "happy" version of the MAOA gene, they reported no more happiness than those without it.'"
For reasons that scientists have not conclusively determined, women are happier than men
Spoilers: It's the difficulty of getting laid. A woman only has to ask "Sex?"
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the gene is incredibly rare.
This gene wouldn't be the one responsible for blond hair, would it?
There's such a thing as a happy woman?
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
it makes me unhappy. It's unfair. Lucky women. Life sucks. Leave me alone.
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
in most states they don't have to put up with wives.
Once they make a pill to activate this gene, then yes.
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He's referring to the using of sex to get one's way/money/goods I believe. That's why when you get married, you stop getting it... because they already have everything you own. :o)
...and it looked like a very large princess cut diamond set in a bed of milk chocolate.
First post!
Does that make you happy?
Your comment reminded me of an old joke:
What's the difference between a wife and a job?
After five years the job still sucks.
Free Martian Whores!
sadly the gene is 3 sizes too small and no one can fit into them.
Do not marry a psychopath!
Make her a CEO instead.
Dammit. Now I'm humming "Every sperm is sacred. Every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate".
It'll take me weeks to get that out of my head again.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
And now.... It's not just you. Thank you for that.
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