Posted on 04/14/2012 8:11:05 PM PDT by lbryce
Hey guys, want to look taller? Just pick up a handgun. Because a study finds that men are more often perceived to be big and strong when they hold a gun. The report is in the journal Public Library of Science ONE.
More than 600 subjects looked at photographs of the right hands of four different white males, each holding a different object: A power drill, a handsaw, a caulking gun and a .45 caliber handgun.
They then viewed silhouetted images of six men who varied in height and musculature and were asked to choose which man most closely matched each hand in the photos.
The participants consistently matched the gun toting hand with the taller and stronger male images. The hand holding the caulking gun was matched most often with the smallest and weakest male images.
In a second study the hands held a paintbrush, squirt gun and a kitchen knife. And again male hands holding the most dangerous object, the knife, were judged to go with the largest and strongest physiques. Seems like strength and power is in the eye of the beholder. Who is strongly swayed by weapons.
—Christie Nicholson
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...
It could be one of three possibilities in the way the experiment was carried out.
1.They weren't aware the device was a gun. 2. Were aware it was but not whether or not it was loaded 3. They knew it was a loaded weapon makes the most sense it the perception of being taller and stronger.
Only insecure girly men would even think to ask this question.
I imagine this makes Zimmerman even guiltier. [/s]
I got a nine inch barrel!
I’m real tall!
This is one of the dumbest articles................sheesh..
Does it work on Hispanics?
I am confused by this so-called ‘study’
We are bigger and stronger when we carry a nice gun...
and handsomer!
4. maybe the hands holding those weapons were muscular?
j/k?
Reminds me of a remark made concerning Samuel Colt...
“Abe Lincoln may have freed all men, but Sam Colt made them equal.”
I’m gonna feel real tall in the morning at the range.
How bout’ men wearing a hoodie in a homeboy neighborhood?
No wonder the liberals had a problem with this. There were too many white guys in here, not enough diversity. On top of that, only one - the handsaw guy - had "gone green" by forsaking power tools and reducing his carbon footprint. Worse, the first white guy obviously had a construction job, no-doubt taken away from some poor deserving illegal immigrant. The third guy is obviously a home owner, fixing up his house lest the evil bank run by other white guys reposes it. Finally the fourth guy, horror of horrors, is exercising his inalienable right to life and liberty by protecting himself with a firearm.
It’s all in a proper grip.
Doncha just love the soft sciences?
Variable containment? We don't need no stinkin variable containment!
Saw stories when Aresenal started making them. Still can’t figure out why.
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