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Fertility drive women’s desire for luxury: Women demonstrate a stronger desire to purchase conspicuous luxury goods during ovulation
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beep piefed.world beep@piefed.world
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Link: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1141431
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WhoIzDisIz lemmy.today WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-04-27
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Color me skeptical after having just read about a completely unrelated study that used fabricated data and has been highly influential for a quarter century. Might just be me, but something feels off to me about this.
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Iconoclast feddit.uk Iconoclast@feddit.uk
Joined: 2026-02-05
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WhoIzDisIz wrote:
Color me skeptical after having just read about a completely unrelated study that used fabricated data and has been highly influential for a quarter century. Might just be me, but something feels off to me about this.

If you take a bunch of people and measure their baseline behaviour, and then subject them all to a hormonal change, is it really that surprising that you're then able to find measurable group-level differences in how they behave?
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