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Related: About this forumWomen in heels have more power over men, study finds
(File under "Dumbass Study of the Week"
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).
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
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CTyankee
(65,386 posts)1. This is so stupid. Dumbass is right.
Maybe respondents were thinking "dominatrix"?
ismnotwasm
(42,484 posts)2. More accurate if they were
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)3. 19 yr old female volunteers asking for respondents.
Sure thing.
Why don't they just get honest: 19 year old hotties soliciting male attention.