I like reading scientific articles not related to my subject of research. Especially if they are about good looking women and how to bewitch them.
So of course The Porsche effect: Why racy women turn a man to racy cars, an article in the British Daily Mail about a recently published study, caught my attention.
The article explains that men tend to think more about luxury goods and less about necessaries when they see a well dressed (and therefore attractive) women.[1] It’s important to point out, that the women do absolutely nothing to enforce this behaviour. It’s all in the head of the men!
A controversial topic, so it’s no big surprise that sixteen readers left comments, which I tried to summarize in the following table:
| comment topic | comments |
|---|---|
| Women only want the guys money | 7 |
| Humor (having an old car and no girlfriend) | 2 |
| Reply / Flame | 2 |
| The research is trivial | 2 |
| I like my horse better than I like my wive | 1 |
| Women in nice cars turn men off | 1 |
| Women are not interested in money | 1 |
It seems like most of the people that commented on the article did not understand the article at all. This research was about the effects beautiful girls have on the minds of men. The effectiveness of showering a women with high value presents was never discussed.
Yet almost all of the comments only revolve around the effects expensive presents allegedly have on women and totally ignore the presented research.
Which make me wonder: Do most people have problems understanding a simple newspaper report?
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I do really hope this is not true for women as well, since my girlfriend always seems to think of food when she thinks of me. ↩
In this age of print being available on the Internet, we have lost the ability to read properly. We are now scanning through our text instead of reading it slowly like we used to.
I wholly agree with you. I myself choose what I want to read by skimming the headlines and maybe the first paragraph.
The shocking thing for me is that many people understand what they want to believe in and not what is actually written.