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dajoga
02-01-2006, 05:10 PM
Sometimes you have to wonder just who is funding scientific studies these days. There has to be some explanation for all the research on bizarre subjects.

Like the study that came out recently in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, which purports to show that taller women are more career-oriented and less motherly than short women. I kid you not. Britain’s Sunday Times summed up the study this way: “The taller a woman is, the less maternal her personality. . . . Taller women aim for fewer children, and put off having their first for longer, the research found. But they set more store by a career than shorter women, and are more competitive.”

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True Grace
02-01-2006, 05:28 PM
I'm only 5'4". I guess that's why I popped out 4 kids.

Bob_Arctor
02-01-2006, 05:42 PM
Why is this "junk science", exactly? You disagree with the conclusions, or just find it silly? :grin:

Naturalized-Texan
02-01-2006, 06:22 PM
I don't know if this is junk science or merely people who have too much time on their hands and grant money to waste. On another thread in this forum we see an actual junk scientist - James Hansen - who has been shown to have fudged temperature data to support his claims about global warming.

g21lto
02-20-2006, 07:37 PM
I wonder how you'd rule out other factors ... ?

Wolfcounsel
02-21-2006, 08:30 AM
"Why is this "junk science", exactly? You disagree with the conclusions, or just find it silly? :grin:" --Bob_Arctor

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