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Scientists Confirm: Guns are Manly
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| 25 April, 2012
| dabneybailey
Posted on 04/26/2012 5:28:08 AM PDT by marktwain
UCLA anthropologists found that test subjects holding a handgun are significantly more terrifying than people holding tools or other objects. Are you surprised?
During the experiment, scientists asked men to hold an object, ranging from hand guns and water guns to saws and paint brushes. The anthropologist took a photograph of each hand and showed them to 600 test subjects, who were then asked to guess the approximate height and strength of the person holding the object.
Their answers confirmed what we knew all along: people who hold guns are more intimidating. On average, test subjects guessed that men with pistols were 17% taller and stronger than the weakest subject, the man holding a caulking gun (we would've guessed water gun).
The anthropologists suggest that this is a result of primordial psychology that judges the threat level of strangers based on their physical stature. As it turns out, a man holding a spear or a shotgun is more threatening than a man holding a fluffy bunny or nothing at all. Did we really need lab coats and government grants to come to this conclusion?
We find these results particularly interesting in the context of the gun debate. After all, one of the primary arguments for gun access is that criminals will be more hesitant to break the law if they think that their targets are packing heat. Thank you, UCLA, for giving scientific validity to an argument that we all already knew was correct.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; guns; science; size
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Guns amplify our defensive and offensive abilities.
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posted on
04/26/2012 5:28:14 AM PDT
by
marktwain
To: marktwain
My kids’ pediatrician said if they had a piece of toast the kids would make a gun out of it
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posted on
04/26/2012 5:29:06 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
( My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: marktwain
During the experiment, scientists asked men to hold an object...Ummmm, errrrr. Oh, never mind.
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posted on
04/26/2012 5:29:34 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Puppage
During the experiment, scientists asked men to hold an object... Ummmm, errrrr. Oh, never mind.
LOL...yeah, me too...
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posted on
04/26/2012 5:32:05 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: marktwain; Fred Nerks; Beckwith; LucyT
Their answers confirmed what we knew all along: people who hold guns are more intimidating. >>>>>>>>>>
Which is one reason to have a gun.
The more interesting question to have surveyed would have been:
” Are people most terrified of a photo of a hand holding a gun, or of a hand holding a bigger gun?”
Then we would know if size matters?
(Buahahahahahaha!)
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posted on
04/26/2012 5:33:53 AM PDT
by
Candor7
(Obama fascist info....http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
To: marktwain
Other objects can affect how manly you appear, as well...
To: ProtectOurFreedom
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posted on
04/26/2012 5:35:18 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
( My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: marktwain
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posted on
04/26/2012 5:37:55 AM PDT
by
50cal Smokepole
(Effective gun control involves effective recoil management.)
To: harpseal; TexasCowboy; nunya bidness; AAABEST; Travis McGee; Squantos; wku man; SLB; ...
"Guns are manly". Oh really now?
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posted on
04/26/2012 5:37:55 AM PDT
by
Joe Brower
(Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
To: marktwain
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posted on
04/26/2012 5:38:14 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: moovova
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posted on
04/26/2012 5:38:26 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: marktwain
Oh Yeah !!
My gun is bigger.
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posted on
04/26/2012 5:42:41 AM PDT
by
Delta 21
(Oh Crap !! Did I say that out loud ??!??)
To: marktwain
Scientists Confirm: Guns are Manly So are spears, clubs, crossbows, swords, lances, axes. Just not as compact.
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posted on
04/26/2012 5:43:55 AM PDT
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
To: Joe Brower
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posted on
04/26/2012 5:44:23 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Joe Brower
Sure, but I bet she only looks 90% as good without the makeup.
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posted on
04/26/2012 5:47:33 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: 50cal Smokepole
This is for fighting, this is for fun.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
That’s a great demonstrative collage.
Of course, being a “metro”, 0bama is the most FABULOUS representative of the left’s ideology.
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posted on
04/26/2012 5:48:20 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: MrB
Sure, but I bet she only looks 90% as good without the makeup.
I'm sorry, what was that? I was too busy admiring the gun. I didn't even notice her.
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posted on
04/26/2012 5:57:35 AM PDT
by
crosshairs
(As long as there is evil, "Coexist" is impossible.)
To: Joe Brower
Rule #1: never put your finger in the trigger until you are ready to shoot the target.
Posing for pictures ain't it.
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posted on
04/26/2012 5:58:17 AM PDT
by
John123
(US$ - I owe you nothing. Euro - Who owes you nothing.)
To: marktwain
Scissors, paper, stone—who’d have thought a paint brush trumped a caulking gun?
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