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Study Confirms That Men ..
I would like to preface this article with a question it gave me. Why would you need to test this? It seems like a complete waste of time and effort. Why not design the next experiment to test if water is wet?"Researchers report that in Tuesday's
edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that their
study found humans were similar to most other mammals, "following
Darwin's principle of choosy females and competitive males, even if
humans say something different."
Participants ranged in age from 26 to their early 40s and took part in
"speed dating," short meetings of three to seven minutes in which
people chat, then move on to meet another dater. Afterward,
participants check off the people they'd like to meet again, and dates
can be arranged between pairs who select one another.
In the study, participants were asked before the session to fill out a
questionnaire about what they were looking for in a mate, listing such
categories as wealth and status, family commitment, physical
appearance, healthiness and attractiveness. After the session,
the researchers compared what the participants said they were looking
for with the people they actually chose to ask for another date.
Men's choices did not reflect their stated preferences, the researchers
concluded. Instead, men appeared to base their decisions mostly on the
women's physical attractiveness. The men also appeared to be
much less choosy. Men tended to select nearly every woman above a
certain minimum attractiveness threshold. Women's
actual choices, like men's, did not reflect their stated preferences,
but they made more discriminating choices, the researchers found.
The scientists said women were aware of the importance of their own
attractiveness to men, and adjusted their expectations to select the
more desirable guys. Women made offers to men who had overall
qualities that were on a par with the women's self-rated
attractiveness. They didn't greatly overshoot their attractiveness because part of the goal for women is to choose men who
would...
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