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May 10, 2006
Good Fathers have a Wimpy Face
Topics: Culture and SocietyThey've got to be kidding:
Women can work out whether a man will make a good father just by looking at his face, research shows. ... By studying what appealed to women, they concluded that the ideal partner should have a symmetrical face, large deep and expressive eyes, with a straight nose and soft jaw.Nope, they're serious (pdf file here) and used 39 men recruited at a college campus in a multivariate and highly subjective study to represent all of humanity. The presuppositions that went into this research are preposterous evolutionary speculation that alone call into question the methods and conclusions. And, of course, the research was supported in part by your tax dollars.
This is another example of how scientific research spawns modern day fables:
"There is increasing concern that in modern research, false findings may be the majority or even the vast majority of published research claims," says researcher John Ioannidis in an analysis in the open access international medical journal PLoS Medicine.A recent publication of Ioannidis' found that a third of medical research articles published in major scientific journals and then cited over a thousand times in the literature are later contradicted or have major questions raised over them.
Posted by tim at May 10, 2006 7:22 PM
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