DesertFox
04-14-2006, 04:45 PM
Fran Yeoman
TimesOnLine
14 Apr 06
Forget carefully crafted compliments and witty jokes, because an inquiry about the merits of pepperoni versus anchovy is more likely to get you that coveted telephone number, according to a study of speed dating.
And men need to get their champion chat-up lines in quickly, because women are even quicker to judge than they are. Almost half (45 per cent) of the women in a mass speed-dating experiment gave prospective partners the mental thumbs down in less than 30 seconds. The men took a minute and a half.
The study, at the Edinburgh International Science Festival last week, involved 100 single people aged from 22 to 45. Each participant had ten speed dates, then had to decide whether they wanted to see any of the ten again.
On average, each man was smitten by four women, whereas women were interested in only two of the eligible males. The 70 couples who registered a mutual attraction will be monitored as they go on further dates over the next six months. ...
Both sexes were heavily influenced by physical appearance, Professor Wiseman, of the University of Hertfordshire, said. “But women tended to look for an instant ‘chemistry’. If that was missing they quickly rejected the man, so the opening line really matters.
“Guys were less judgmental and took a bit longer to assess a woman’s attractiveness.”
More (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2133772,00.html)
TimesOnLine
14 Apr 06
Forget carefully crafted compliments and witty jokes, because an inquiry about the merits of pepperoni versus anchovy is more likely to get you that coveted telephone number, according to a study of speed dating.
And men need to get their champion chat-up lines in quickly, because women are even quicker to judge than they are. Almost half (45 per cent) of the women in a mass speed-dating experiment gave prospective partners the mental thumbs down in less than 30 seconds. The men took a minute and a half.
The study, at the Edinburgh International Science Festival last week, involved 100 single people aged from 22 to 45. Each participant had ten speed dates, then had to decide whether they wanted to see any of the ten again.
On average, each man was smitten by four women, whereas women were interested in only two of the eligible males. The 70 couples who registered a mutual attraction will be monitored as they go on further dates over the next six months. ...
Both sexes were heavily influenced by physical appearance, Professor Wiseman, of the University of Hertfordshire, said. “But women tended to look for an instant ‘chemistry’. If that was missing they quickly rejected the man, so the opening line really matters.
“Guys were less judgmental and took a bit longer to assess a woman’s attractiveness.”
More (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2133772,00.html)