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tornpentacle t1_ixfp84s wrote

Replying to AutoModerator (#625,734)

Usually I'd really be ticked off by the snarky rule-breaking comments about how obvious this is. There are good reasons to study things generally considered common sense.

But this...uh, seriously? Seriously? This is pretty explicitly saying x=x

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OneTimeIDidThatOnce t1_ixfwqxc wrote

I'm guessing this is like a formal proof in mathematics; it solidifies the foundation of a concept.

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ShexyBaish6351 t1_ixfwypd wrote

For those who think this means “horny guys wants sex,” consider for a moment that maybe scientists aren’t as worthless as you think. There’s quite a body of research on what factors influence men and women’s interest in short-term mating opportunities (e.g., one night stands) as opposed to committed, long-term relationships.

Believe it or not, not all men in all situations seek a quick bang. Often, they’d like an actual long-term companion and invest a LOT of time and resources into pursuing that to the exclusion of short-term partners.

What this study says is that regardless of personality characteristics, relationship status, etc., sexual arousal sort of pushes everything else to the side, and even men who tend to be committed and uninterested in a one night stand shift their strategies/interest to short-term mating.

Might you have predicted this? Probably. Were there reason to doubt it? Actually, yes. There were. Men aren’t just straight up f%^#ing machines. They actually have other motivations. But this study clarified the matter.

And that’s what science is - testing hypotheses, even those everyone thinks are obvious, so that evidence actually exists to support ideas.

This is science. That’s how it works.

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Flowchart83 t1_ixguy5s wrote

So wanting to have sex makes you want to have sex. Never would have put it together. Does being hungry make people want to eat food too?

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Arcadius274 t1_ixgxg9p wrote

....this study was funded.....and not by the man show in like early 2000s or something....like people who think.......

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Doomed_Redshirt t1_ixh56bn wrote

Ok scientists, now see if being physically attractive makes a woman desirable for sex. We want to know!

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AdCool2805 t1_ixh8z4s wrote

Isn’t this like, super obvious and self explanatory?

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ShexyBaish6351 t1_ixkh4l5 wrote

Replying to Arcadius274 (#629,962)

This was very likely part of a much larger study, but they had the data to test these hypotheses, so they did. Happens all the time in the social science. You have TONS of data from a big study, so you think about the hypotheses that you could test with the data set you have, so you do that and write up the results to be published.

I find that 99% of people who question scientific funding have literally no idea how any of it works. But that’s people for you.

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