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they needed a study to confirm this?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science....ap/index.html
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Science is confirming what most women know: When given the choice for a mate, men go for good looks.
In the dating game, men know what they want.
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 compe ive 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.
they needed a study to confirm this?
In other news, "Water is wet!"
Remember when scientists actually did for a living? Like curing things, and discovering important . That was awesome.
The next study Harvard should do should figure out which group of scientists is more useless: these guys or the guys from Cambridge who studied Jessica Alba's "wiggle ratio"?
I can't imagine why attractive women have such big heads and an at ude problem to match.
Duh Forum.
Perhaps the subtle genius of the Cambridge scientists will become clear when you realize that they got a $5 million grant to stalk Alba for "field research".
After being married to someone who did not cook or clean, this is my definition of a hot babe...It would also be helpful if she knew how to make a BLT from scratch...
I'm not denying that talking someone into funding this stuff doesn't take some brilliance, I'm just saying that they are quite useless. Seriously, besides creating some topic fodder in The Club what benefit is there for mankind in all of this?
How much money do you think that I can talk Princeton out of to study flaming dog poo and the human response?
I can't wait be a scientist!
Date a woman going through menopause. There's a hot gal for ya!
I'd like to volunteer for the next research group: "Do men like it when hot women put out?"
I like nerdy girls better. Hot chicks bore me.
you're probably playing that angle cause you can't score with a true hot chick.
This study was brought to you by the people who performed the study "Do men like pussy and blowjobs". Tune In next week when the results of our new study come in, "Does lack of sleep make you tired"
I'm playing that angle because I can play video games and watch cartoons with a nerdy girl rather than being told I'm immature and consequently be dumped for my hobbies which hot girls don't often share with me. Makes sense if you think about it, just like if you're into food you want to date an ugly woman who can cook as the song goes.
In other news Voltron got totally served.
I like nerdy girls who are hot.
Are these the same scientists that measured the damage of cow farts to the atmosphere?
I do LOVE me some hot nerdy girls.I like nerdy girls who are hot.
best of both worlds..
The only hot nerdy girl I've met was asian and was into anime something serious, creepily serious. You know, dressed it, talked it...
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