Thursday, July 28, 2005

Research Promises More Fulfilling Robotic Relationships

The Miracle of Science

British researchers, long at the forefront of bringing humanity new knowledge with practical applications, has wowed the planet with this revelation:

Wining and dining is the best way for men to woo women

Holy fuck!  If you spend time with women and give them things, they tend to like you!

Apparently the Brits designed,

a mathematical formula and modeled courtship as a sequential game to find the best way to impress the ladies.

I applaud science’s efforts to quantify attraction.  Beyond the obvious relationship of quantity of dough being proportional to the raw attractiveness of the dough-holder.  I get that.  But spending alot of time and effort to determine the patently obvious, for its own sake, makes me want to eat my own shoe in sheer frustration.

After a stiff drink and a percodan, and with a little reflection, I realized a greater shortcoming here.  What the study fails to take into account is that different cultures value different gifts, particularly in the awkward cultural judo that courtship can be.  The study really only applies to places where wining and dining is an accepted, or indeed feasible, practice.  Nor does the work draw a distinction between eateries.  At Outback, say, dinner for 2 can be kept under $40; a decent steak dinner in, say, Japan can run around $170,000. 

But why have to deal with exchange rates and kooky foreign currency and decent meats at all if you don’t have to?  Leave it to the Japanese to build their own dates.


Posted by GeekLethal on 07/28/05 at 08:59 AM
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