Sunday, October 28, 2012

Sample Sizes 41 and 67

According to a recent study:

Researchers from the University of California quizzed 41 women in long-term relationships about how attractive they found their husbands or boyfriends.

And, twice over the course of a month, they were asked how committed they were to their relationship and how close they felt to their partner.

In a second, similar experiment, 67 women were questioned twice about how likely they were to find fault with their other half.

The results showed that the women’s attitudes changed depending on how fertile they were and how attractive their man was.

A propensity to rush into print based on minimal evidence in the field of gender relations is not limited to feminists.