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Reply With QuoteDoes not say whether this applies to vegetarians ?
Would showing them their favourite dishes also work.
Pfffftt...Could've told em this!!
Research Study Finds The Sight of Meat Calms Men Down - Los Angeles Restaurants and Dining - Squid InkForget massages, soothing music or aromatherapy. If you want to calm down a stressed-out man, just show him a few photos of meat. Preferably just-cooked hunks of beef filet, lamb chop and T-bone steaks, still sizzling and etched with blackened grill marks. Okay, perhaps not those exact cuts of meat, but researchers at McGill University in Canada did find that images of meat actually calmed men down and made them less aggressive.
According to AOLNews,
"Researchers told 82 male subjects they were studying multitasking. The subjects were asked to sort through stacks of pictures while simultaneously following an actor reading a script. When the actor screwed up a line, the subjects inflicted varying degrees of punishment on the actor, in the form of loud noises. The highest-volume sounds were believed by the subjects to be painful to the actors. The study found that the subjects were less likely to choose to inflict pain if they were looking at a photo of cooked meat when the mistake was made."
The researchers expected the opposite to be true; that images of meat would increase aggressive behavior in males, similar to how dogs act out when meat is taken from them. Instead, the researchers say that the sight of meat calms men down because it reminds them of friends and family at mealtime. If you think about it, the idea makes sense; "hunting" to get the meat is stressful enough, both in prehistoric and present times. Anyone who's hit up Whole Foods during the after-work rush knows this to be true.
So by the time the meat is cooked and ready to eat, you're most likely relaxed, surrounded by family and friends and ready to enjoy a satisfying meal. Or at least that's what lead researcher Frank Kachanoff believes, saying "It wouldn't be advantageous to be aggressive anymore, because you would've already used your aggression to acquire the meat, and furthermore, you'd be surrounded by people who share... your DNA."
Even though meat's calming effect has been proven, Kachanoff isn't done yet. Next up, he wants to study how images of dead animals and uncooked meat affect men. As if that's not enough, he's also planning to throw images of women into the mix, as both subjects and targets of aggression. Sounds less like a research study and more like prehistoric porn, but hey, to each his own.
Does not say whether this applies to vegetarians ?
Would showing them their favourite dishes also work.
Study says "men"......not "girly men".Originally Posted by Double Edge
I find it the opposite , the sight of fresh meat excites me , hmmmmmmmmmm beef curtains :notworthy:
"When England was a kingdom, we had a king.
When we were an empire, we had an emperor.
Now we're a country
I find the sight of a nicely cooked piece of meat to be calming, and so is a nice pint of pale ale. I wish I could be paid to figure out things like this...
"If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees.
If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children."
It's not enough to show that it calms you. It has to show that it calms all men
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Abusing Yellow is meant to be a labor of love, not something you sell to the highest bidder.
We can do that, we will need a very large staff, a huge budget and enough time to interview every man on on Earth. We will pay each man for the interview and give them each some nice cooked meat, or a nice vegetarian dish of their choice. Statistically we will construct a result to justify our research, funding the peer reviewers own projects as compensation for their approval and achieving scientific credibility with no problem. I will retire after we get things rolling (collecting a comfortable pension, and occasionally contributing as staff emeritus) and leave you in charge of the project.
If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children."
Sampling theory.
Don't need to get evey man just a little over a couple of thousand and you're acurate to +/- 5%
Extra credits if the test is done to minimise bias.
What if they can perform a 100 pushups on their thumbsStudy says "men"......not "girly men".
I need a grant so I can start conducting interviews at the strip club/steak house. After a few months of research I will compare those results to a strip club that does not serve food. Its a rough job but some one has to do it and you can't trust those pencil necked geeks to do this correctly. My experience is that whenever a rare, gorgeously proportioned and well dressed, piece of meat comes my way i first get exited and can stay that way for quite some time. However, after the action dies down I am very calm, peaceful and relaxed.
Yes sampling theory is helpful, and often the only way to get usable results. In the case of semiconductor defect management, we had to go to full population statistics to really figure out the issues, the samples consistently failed to give the answers. Full population stats showed the problems very clearly - but that was a controlled situation were the full population was accessible. Sampling bias is a very big obstacle, and it requires understanding of the population distribution - which in turn requires a full population analysis. There was a good book called How to Lie with Statistics... sample bias was the key - In my one data point sample we can see conclusive evidence: therefore I am entitled to massive compensation, benefits and no responsibiilities...
If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children."
Statisticians are the fishermen of the math world. They have infinite ways of stretching the truth.
I would say they have very good thumbs or are very light in weight...perhaps some meat is needed?What if they can perform a 100 pushups on their thumbs
Good post USS Wisconsin
That book you referred to has been on my reading list for some time now.
What you said does bring into questions how accurate population surveys actually are. Is 5-10% error (sometimes they claim 2-5%) realistic provided its carried out in the proper manner, managing carefully for bias ?
The PEW global attitude surveys come to mind. I would think so long as its clearly explained what steps they took to minimise this bias they would already be ahead of surveys that neglected to even mention it.
Last edited by Double Edge; 13 Dec 10, at 16:05.
That's a pretty strong homo...:hide:What if they can perform a 100 pushups on their thumbs
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