tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post549349491300874421..comments2023-12-30T01:23:38.125-08:00Comments on Riddled: Before the kiss, A red cap #2[Stealing from Neuroskeptic edition]Hamish Mackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18079552635307235197noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-56528095709167958022017-03-25T00:03:41.524-07:002017-03-25T00:03:41.524-07:00song makes me want to chuck funny dice all afterno...<i>song makes me want to chuck funny dice all afternoon long.</i><br /><br />I am not familiar with that euphemism.Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-91527674895459374422017-03-24T18:30:06.755-07:002017-03-24T18:30:06.755-07:00For the record, while I think it's slightly ch...For the record, while I think it's slightly cheesy, I really dig "Don't Pay the Ferryman"- song makes me want to chuck funny dice all afternoon long.Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-27962102279493698082017-03-24T18:27:57.570-07:002017-03-24T18:27:57.570-07:00I suspect Chris De Burgh is the puppet master behi...I suspect Chris De Burgh is the puppet master behind all of these studies.Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-48453691601658605572017-03-22T03:51:45.007-07:002017-03-22T03:51:45.007-07:00My Grandma, what a big Monte Carlo matrix you have...My Grandma, what a big Monte Carlo matrix you have!"<br />"All the better to simulate you with, my Dear!"rhwombathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12965197378050915417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-45508412801305646142017-03-21T20:08:15.962-07:002017-03-21T20:08:15.962-07:00menstruating women were involuntarily compelled by...<i>menstruating women were involuntarily compelled by their hormones to turn themselves into Little Red Riding Hood</i><br /><br />It's more about <b>ovulation</b> than menstruation. In one landmark paper in this literature, Tracey and Beall measured "peak red-wearing" (or peak red-shirt-wearing, to be precise), and declared that this coincided with the high point of fertility in their subjects' cycles... <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/07/statistics_and_psychology_multiple_comparisons_give_spurious_results.html" rel="nofollow">except it didn't</a> (an earlier Evo-Psychologist had screwed up the facts on ovulation dates, and Tracey and Beall had tried too hard to get their observations to fit that earlier author's misunderstanding).<br /><br />Apparently post-menopausal women stop wearing red or trying to look sexy. <br /><br /><i>4. Red is an objectively "sexy" color, is it?</i><br />If you believe the endless stream of crappy little studies coming out of Elliot's laboratory, <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103112001527" rel="nofollow">Indeed it is!</a><br /><br />Thank you for all the question marks. We will try not to use them all at once.Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-89829464249657450682017-03-21T18:14:15.848-07:002017-03-21T18:14:15.848-07:001. Lesbians/bisexual women don't exist?
2. Or ...1. Lesbians/bisexual women don't exist?<br />2. Or don't ovulate?<br />3. Or, Jesus Christ, don't invest in "ornamentation" behaviors?<br />4. Red is an objectively "sexy" color, is it?<br />5. What about red sweatpants?<br />6. Maybe those ladies are wearing red on period days for reasons other than the promotion of female sexiness, what do you think?<br />7. I saw a paper in the sidebar called "Human Mate Guarding," but I didn't click on it.<br /><br />Some extras: ??????????????????????Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11771959740072605857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-11024535221082455392017-03-21T16:26:49.855-07:002017-03-21T16:26:49.855-07:00That is a very plausible explanation, Emma, and th...That is a very plausible explanation, Emma, and therefore unacceptable to the judges.<br /><br />See also "<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26158923" rel="nofollow">Lady in Red: Hormonal Predictors of Women's Clothing Choices</a>", "<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17045994" rel="nofollow">Ovulatory shifts in human female ornamentation: near ovulation, women dress to impress</a>", and a lot of other equally shite research.Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-49738908775957194432017-03-21T15:12:34.419-07:002017-03-21T15:12:34.419-07:00I don't want to seem like a stalker, here, but...I don't want to seem like a stalker, here, but... they were conducting a study to determine whether or not menstruating women were involuntarily compelled by their hormones to turn themselves into Little Red Riding Hood, and they just <b><i>phrased the title poorly</i></b>???<br /><br />I think I could sit here typing question marks without stopping for the next two weeks, and it still wouldn't be enough question marks.<br /><br />(Maybe it's a joke study, or a desperate bid for an Ignobel. That happens, right?)Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11771959740072605857noreply@blogger.com