Here’s some shocking research for you: attractive women make men stupid. Unfortunately, the article doesn’t cover the real answers that might make this information useful to occasionally stupid men.
1) Why only men aged from 18 to 28? I personally have a stronger interest in knowing how many IQ points, say, a 36-year-old might drop. How much does alcohol enhance this effect? That’s a bell curve I’d like to see.
2) When characterizing something as an “unfair offer”, how did they account for the men thinking, “hey, better than nothing”? Again, how much does alcohol enhance this effect?
3) It would be really useful to run a few thousand more subjects through and come up with one-to-one correlations that say that “attractive feature X” is good for “lost IQ points Y”. (Less tongue-in-cheek, since attractiveness is subjective, it would be really fascinating to use this to come up with objective measures across a wide population of men and women, or to find cultural differences in the size of the effect.)
4) Women aren’t affected? Hogwash. I know too many women with too many regrets. You’re not trying hard enough.
Alternatively, one could objectively determine how attractive a given woman is based on how many IQ points the men lose after looking at her picture.
I’m just saying, if you want something that will distract the women, that’d be it…
(Oh, and by the way, did anyone read this post and not compare their ring finger & their index finger? Didn’t think so…)
Right, because if there’s one thing all men need, it’s another body part about whose size to obsess over.