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ismnotwasm

(41,976 posts)
Mon Dec 8, 2014, 05:36 PM Dec 2014

Women in heels have more power over men, study finds

(File under "Dumbass Study of the Week&quot

tively small cross-section, this study is very significant since the results are clear and consistent," said Paris-based sociologist Jean-Claude Kaufmann, who was not involved in the study. "In a relation of seduction, men are very attracted by a woman in heels as she looks taller, more sexually confident, sure of herself, with a lengthened silhouette and sensual jutting buttocks."

Gueguen's study had 19-year-old female volunteers wearing black shoes with heels that were 0.5cm (0.2 inches) or 5cm (2 inches) or 9cm (3 1/2 inches) high. Then they asked men between the ages of 25-50 for help in various circumstances.

One situation involved a woman asking passers-by: "Excuse me, sir. We are currently conducting a survey on gender equality. Would you agree to answer our questionnaire?" Flat heels got a 46.7% answer rate, medium heels a 63% rate and the highest heels a whopping 83% success rate from the men.

Nowadays, the most fashionable heels on the runways and in nightclubs are higher still - with spiked heels commonly measuring 10 cm (4 inches) and extreme heels, dangerously, above 13 cm (5 inches).


http://www.cbsnews.com/news/women-in-heels-have-more-power-over-men-study-finds/


Too easy to pick this apart, but frigging CBS picks it up as though it has actual validity. In Actuality, a larger study using a wider age range, color, shapes and sizes of women, my guess is the results would be different.
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Women in heels have more power over men, study finds (Original Post) ismnotwasm Dec 2014 OP
This is so stupid. Dumbass is right. CTyankee Dec 2014 #1
More accurate if they were ismnotwasm Dec 2014 #2
19 yr old female volunteers asking for respondents. BlancheSplanchnik Dec 2014 #3

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
3. 19 yr old female volunteers asking for respondents.
Sun Dec 14, 2014, 02:12 AM
Dec 2014

Sure thing.

Why don't they just get honest: 19 year old hotties soliciting male attention.

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