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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-07-11 06:23 AM
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The bare-faced truth about big fat liars
Men with wide faces are more likely to lie and cheat than narrow-faced men but they seem to make better businessmen, according to a study that links facial features with a tendency to engage in unethical behaviour.

Scientists believe they have evidence to show that the width of a man's face relative to his facial height is an indicator of how powerful he feels and of his willingness to surreptitiously break social rules to achieve his goals.

The findings suggest that the width-to-height ratio of the face could be an ancient evolutionary signal of a man's aggressiveness when dealing with competitors, said Professor Michael Haselhuhn of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, who led the study.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-barefaced-truth-about-big-fat-liars-2307552.html



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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-07-11 06:26 AM
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1. Well...
This POS blows that theory out of the water.

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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-07-11 07:57 AM
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3. It's not a hard fast rule.
All of these are general tendencies, not absolute truths for every person. That is the nature of finding a correlation. It just means that when you look at the data, the general trend is true. It doesn't actually mean that everyone with that face shape is going to behave according to expectations.
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Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-07-11 07:47 AM
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2. I thought this was going to be another Obama post.
:shrug:
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-07-11 09:23 AM
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4. Nah.... I already did one on his spelunking.
Caving—also occasionally known as spelunking in the United States and potholing in the United Kingdom—is the recreational pastime of exploring wild (generally non-commercial) cave systems.


This one is purely on the shoulders of the right wing.
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