Ten Politically Incorrect Truths.

1. Lydia
   July 9th, 2007 at 2:13 pm

   Unfortunately, while some of these arguments are well-founded, they are undermined by the brainless assumptions piled on top of them and supported by virtually no evidence.

2. bob
   July 9th, 2007 at 3:47 pm

   kudos, lydia. i thought the very same.

3. Bad Cat!
   July 9th, 2007 at 5:08 pm

   Interesting article - too bad most of it is crap…

4. Matt
   July 9th, 2007 at 5:43 pm

   Bad Cat! is right.

5. artschild
   July 9th, 2007 at 5:49 pm

   hear hear

6. Nora
   July 9th, 2007 at 5:56 pm

   Note that both authors: Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa are MALES.

7. David
   July 9th, 2007 at 6:36 pm

   And Ph.D.s….

8. meg
   July 9th, 2007 at 9:01 pm

   Ph.D. just means you spent a lot of time in school and can make a convincing argument about a long dissertation in front of a board. It doesn’t make them right.

   While some of the article I found very interesting, some of it is utter bull…the majority of males may prefer a low waist-to-hip ratio, which is understandable, but when surveyed they didn’t prefer blonde hair…most preferred darker hair.

   but hey, i’m sure if i brought that up with the authors they’d just accuse me of trying to be politically correct.

9. Paul
   July 9th, 2007 at 10:38 pm

   I find most annoying the way these findings are presented as fact. They aren’t. They are speculation based on dubious research. I am a Ph.D. as well, and believe me, that title does not always constitute authority in a field.

   In any case, I can attest in my own experience that several of those facts are parlously mistaken.

10. Dan
    July 10th, 2007 at 1:14 am

    How in the heck can one be expected to believe anything from an industry that fights itself in court and can’t cure the common depression?

    Nice laugh though.

11. David
    July 10th, 2007 at 3:21 am

    Well it wasn’t meant to be an academic argument anyway; calling the argument unsupported (surely you mean undocumented) is a little out of place. It was meant for entertainment, and clearly serves as a starting point for discussion. Even without citations, the logical progression never called for serious leaps. But I agree that without citations of evidence, the whole thing is a leap of faith.

    If anything can be taken from this article, it is that males and females have profound effects on each other that we are still struggling to understand.

    And surveys about hair…the hair and hip-waist ratio are non-conscious selective behaviors. A survey asks for a conscious response.

12. Ben
    July 10th, 2007 at 4:31 pm

    This is psuedo-science at its worst. Totally unsupported assertions contradicting each other in several places. Link to a good refutation:
    http://echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/
    Scroll down a bit, it’s a four part series.

13. Bengt Larsson
    July 11th, 2007 at 11:44 am

    Along with other commenters, I wasn’t too impressed, either. You shouldn’t present science as “truths”.

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