Six beers later, and it ain't helpin'!
Posted on 09/03/2007 5:24:49 PM PDT by Pharmboy
Science is confirming what most women know: When given the choice for a mate, men go for good looks.
And guys won't be surprised to learn that women are much choosier about partners than they are.
"Just because people say they're looking for a particular set of characteristics in a mate, someone like themselves, doesn't mean that is what they'll end up choosing," Peter M. Todd, of the cognitive science program at Indiana University, Bloomington, said in a telephone interview.
Researchers led by Todd report 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."
Their study involved 26 men and 20 women in Munich, Germany.
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.
Speed dating let researchers look at a lot of mate choices in a short time, Todd said.
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, Todd said.
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," Todd said, "because part of the goal for women is to choose men who would stay with them"
But, he added, "they didn't go lower. They knew what they could get and aimed for that level."
So, it turns out, the women's attractiveness influenced the choices of the men and the women.
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In other news, water is wet. How much taxpayer money went toward this?
This is the most unsurprising news since Hillary announced her candidacy in a black pants suit.
LMAO!
Six beers later, and it ain't helpin'!
this otta be good ...
Damn you.
I would submit the age of the participants would also make a huge difference. I’ve seen a number of females approaching 30 and just beyond, that were looking for nothing much more than a warm body. There’s a clock that some women are just thrilled to tell you about, that once was clicking softly, but now chimes inside their heads like Big Ben.
They can say whatever they want about their studies. My personal observations trump.
Coyote fugly.
Choosing a wife
A man wanted to get married.
He was having trouble choosing
among three likely candidates.
He gives each woman a present of $5,000
and watches to see what they do
with the money.
The first does a total make-over.
She goes to a fancy beauty salon,
gets her hair done, new make-up
and buys several new outfits,
then dresses up very nicely for the man.
She tells him that she has done this
to be more attractive for him
because she loves him so much.
The man was impressed.
The second goes shopping to buy the man gifts.
She gets him a new set of golf clubs,
some new gizmos for his computer,
and some expensive clothes.
As she presents these gifts,
she tells him that she has spent
all the money on him
because she loves him so much
Again, the man is impressed.
The third invests the money in the stock market.
She earns several times the $5,000.
She gives him back his $5,000
and reinvests the remainder
in a joint account.
She tells him that she wants to save
for their future
because she loves him so much.
Obviously, the man was impressed.
The man thought for a long time
about what each woman had done
with the money he’d given her.
Then, he married the one with the biggest boobs.
And Bill Clinton's excuse is...??
Oh, like that helps. Posting a pic of the perfect woman can only skew the discussion.
I mean, one look at those legs and that face and it is just obvious that she’s wise, caring, intelligent, insightful, patient, a great cook, and just about anything else that matters.
Plus, she can fish.
They would if you dropped them.
On you or her it wouldn't much matter. Either way you wouldn't have look at...at...at...whatever that thing is.
...short meetings of three to seven minutes in which people chat...
That's not even long enough to make a first impression.
gee, such a wide sample they used..
what a crock of darwi-babble....
And what foundations issued grants for this?
I’m a fool. I should have tapped into grant funding for a living.
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