Posted on 02/27/2010 6:51:43 AM PST by mattstat
The headline is “Hourglass Figures Affect Men’s Brains Like a Drug.”
Researchers—that darling, catchall term—conducted a study examining men who were allowed to look at pictures of naked females (from behind) and found that these men liked what they saw.
The joke circulating in commentary on this story is: Who knew? It’s the joke that’s interesting.
One can chuckle in two ways. That any scientist would study such a thing is silly, therefore funny. I have an image of white-frocked geeks measuring the amount of drool from their porn-watching subjects. “An increase of 32.8% as she bends. Success!”
But the second kind of mirth is meant to come from the sophisticates who know we can’t know men like sexy women until it’s studied scientifically. Not knowing before studying is mandated in science. And if you don’t know that, then that’s funny.
Which group has the best laugh?
To know, let’s look closer at the original study.
[R]esearchers had 14 men, average age 25, rate how attractive they found pictures of the naked derrieres of seven women before and after cosmetic surgery that gave them more shapely hips. These operations did not reduce weight but just redistributed it, by implanting fat harvested from the waists into the buttocks.
Brain scans of the men revealed that seeing post-surgery women activated parts of the brain linked with rewards, including regions associated with responses to drugs and alcohol.
That’s doing it the hard way. There are surely easier ways of finding, on the internet, pictures of naked females. Of all shapes, hourglass or not. It might take..
(Excerpt) Read more at wmbriggs.com ...
This research raises several questions. Was the data peer reviewed? Was TARP money used? Did the study create, or save, jobs?
The study appears sexist when the samples were all men. Shouldn't ladies have some input to this research?
Fourteen samples have a margin of error over 26 %. I think the research should continue with a larger number of samples.
There’s a girl who works out at the gym who looks just like that. I clean her sweat off her treadmill for her when she’s done. I say it’s no big deal, plus we usually finish at the same time anyway.
Wonder Woman looks like she is wearing Depends.
They forgot to say “unexpectedly”.
Holy Moly!
Or this!!!
Like the great Benny Hill said.
She has a hourglass figure, and not a minute of it is wasted.
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