Misleading Headline of the Day

Here’s a good headline from the Tellytubbygiraffe:

Men brought up with women are less sexy

Wow! Except…

A team of psychobiologists from the University of Texas experimented with new born rats, separating them into litters either male dominated, female dominated or equally mixed.

They found sexual behaviour was influenced more by the male-female ratio of the litter in which they were brought up than the one to which they were born.

When it came to mating, the male rats brought up in a litter of mainly sisters, spent less time mating than those brought up among male rats or in an equally divided litter.

So, not men at all. Rats!

 

4 Comments

  1. Do people really believe this stuff? Shite like that can’t be in the paper for any other reason but to fill it, surely? Nothing to say.

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