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To test this prediction, we conducted a study that requested 20 female subjects
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next chart is 44 female subjects
Infact the only charts in there I can find that have over 50 female participants are the graph charts - the one on page 225 is interesting but without knowing what the 18 variables used to determine 'good financial prospects' not very helpful.
My point being that I could quite easily go out and find over 50 people in a country who would tell you some truly stupid things are true (I was going to make a list but it got too long).
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To support my theory earlier that all men care about is having a hot and easy girl I have :
Page 213 Table 2
Page 210 Figure 1
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Physical appearance should be less central to a woman's mate preferences than to a man't mate preferences.
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(Page 209)
That specifically makes me laugh due to the amount of posts in the sexuality section claimng all women want is a guy that fits the physical model of desirability.
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Prediction 1: Men will express greater desire for, or interest in short term mates than will women.
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Prediction8: Because the successful enactment of a short term sexual strategy for men requires minimizing commitment and investment, men will find undesirable in potential short-term mates any cues that signal that the woman wants to extract a commitment.
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Prediction 9: Because the most important class of cues that are linked with fertility and reproductive value are physical (Buss, 1987,1989b; Symons, 1979; Williams, 1975) men will place greater importance on physical attractiveness in both short-term and long-term mating contexts.
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Prediction 10: Men will find physically unattractive women to be undesirable in both short- and long-term mating contexts.
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(Page 214)
All from the scientific site I linked to earlier.
All the above is from
http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homep...heory_1993.pdf
From
http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homep...AB/Li,2007.pdf I have :
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studies on long-term mate preferences conducted over several decades have shown that men value physical attractiveness more than women do
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physical attractiveness is prioritized by men considering long-term mates
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For instance, Buss (1988) found that women tend to attract mates by enhancing their physical appearance. Indeed, the multi-billion-dollar cosmetics industry and the rapidly expanding cosmetic-surgery market reflect modern women’s awareness of the benefits of aesthetically controlling the aging process and thus, the underlying adaptive value (and priority) that men place on physical attractiveness.
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I will admit I am experiencing a growing urge to make a website devoted to the fact that as long as you're pretty you can get whatever guy you want, you don't have to worry about being intelligent, funny, successful or independent. I wonder if I did would some other web forum be in a heated debate about guys caring more about what's in a girls head rather then attached to her chest?
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All these theories (including the Ladder theory) assume that people are consciously or subconciously choosing a partner according to some vast strategy, isn't it at all possible that we're choosing a partner who meets our needs as an individual? That we want someone that we believe matches us in social status and physical appearance.