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Re:Women Prefer Poaching by tokenadult on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @11:11PM (#757171)
Upvoted for interesting implications.

I'm not sure if the study design or sample size

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

reported here inspires confidence in the conclusion, but this would definitely be an issue worth investigating some more. I'm not sure how many men would guess this, or for that matter how many women would guess what this article says about men. I can think of one example of a woman I knew (back when I was single) who seemed to be signalling to me that she wanted me to "poach" her by telling me she had a boyfriend. But to me that was just off-putting. (I was already put off from a romantic relationship with her--I knew her strictly through studies we were both pursuing at the time.)

Re:Women Prefer Poaching by llimllib on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @11:42PM (#757211)
> I'm not sure how many men would guess this, or for that matter how many women would guess what this article says about men

Really? I've always believed it to be common wisdom that some women strongly prefer men in relationships.