Posted on 09/09/2013 4:12:25 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Men with smaller testicles tend to be more involved as fathers, a new study suggests.
James Rilling and his colleagues at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, used MRI scans to measure the volume of the testicles of 55 fathers. The team asked these men and the mothers of their children a series of questions to determine how involved they are as fathers. The team also used fMRI brain scanners to look at the brain activity of the men as they viewed photos of their kids.
Men with smaller testicles got the best parenting scores in the questionnaires. When looking at pictures of their children, these men also showed more activity in regions of the brain associated with empathy and motivation to care for offspring than men with bigger testes, which suggests they are more nurturing fathers.
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1) how much tax money was used for this
2) what are the objective standards for “good dad”
Haha, that’s funny. Proportional to their body size, gorillas have small testicles. Chimpanzees have large ones.
I bet he would be a FABULOUS daddykins
lol
He gets cranky every 28 days.
Who defines better? The study is a sack of crap.
This reminds me of a tv show I saw a few weeks ago. A man had his 132 lb scrotum removed. Never heard anything like that before. He was a different person afterwards.
No. It’s a sac of crap. Technically speaking.
Lol
This flies in the face of a study of which I was a part 35 years ago. Bulls with bigger testicles were better sires, they had better settle rates and their sperm was more active and had fewer defects than those with smaller testicles. I guess our study was defective and not gay enough.
How small? Zer0?
At the present time my eldest son would say I’m a lousy father.
then saw your screen name. :)
I’m not talking testicles. I’m talking the results of the study. Sack of crap, bag of poop, whatever.
Yeah, and such a huge sample size, i.e., 55.
Misplaced his prayer rug?
Thank you for reminding me of my elementary school days bus ride.
Ha!
The other day, my best friend and I went out to eat at a restaurant on the water and we both wanted to watch the boats. I asked her if it would be too gay if I sat beside her and we both cracked up. The waitress even laughed about it. I totally forgot about being PC and offending some poor gay person when I said it.
But, fondu?
But... how do they get to BE dads?
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