{"id":44964,"date":"2020-12-13T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=44964"},"modified":"2020-12-12T09:34:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T14:34:58","slug":"qotd-the-statistical-rule-of-silicone-boobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/12\/13\/qotd-the-statistical-rule-of-silicone-boobs\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The statistical &#8220;Rule of Silicone Boobs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>If it&#8217;s sexy, it&#8217;s probably fake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sexy&#8221; means &#8220;likely to get published in the <em>New York Times<\/em> and\/or get the researcher on a TEDx stage&#8221;. Actual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.primalpoly.com\/the-mating-mind\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">sexiness research<\/a> is not &#8220;sexy&#8221; because it keeps running into inconvenient results like that rich and high-status men in their forties and skinny women in their early twenties tend to find each other very sexy. The only way to make a result like that &#8220;sexy&#8221; is to blame it on the patriarchy, and most psychologist aren&#8217;t that far gone (<a href=\"https:\/\/putanumonit.com\/2018\/06\/17\/miller-2-psychology\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">yet<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Anything counterintuitive is also sexy, and (according to Rule 2) less likely to be true. So is anything novel that isn&#8217;t based on solid existing research. After all, the <em>Times<\/em> is the <em>news<\/em>paper business, not in the <em>truths<\/em>paper one.<\/p>\n<p>Finding robust results is very hard, but getting sexy results published is very easy. Thus, sexy results generally lack robustness. I personally find a certain robustness quite sexy, but that attitude seems to have gone out of fashion since the Renaissance.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Falkovich, <a href=\"https:\/\/putanumonit.com\/2018\/09\/07\/the-scent-of-bad-psychology\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Scent of Bad Psychology&#8221;, <em>Put a Number On It!<\/em><\/a>, 2018-09-07.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s sexy, it&#8217;s probably fake. &#8220;Sexy&#8221; means &#8220;likely to get published in the New York Times and\/or get the researcher on a TEDx stage&#8221;. Actual sexiness research is not &#8220;sexy&#8221; because it keeps running into inconvenient results like that rich and high-status men in their forties and skinny women in their early twenties tend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,57,41,16],"tags":[39,213,139,1233,290],"class_list":["post-44964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-humour","category-quotations","category-science","tag-junkscience","tag-newspapers","tag-psychology","tag-replicationcrisis","tag-statistics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bHe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44964"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62003,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44964\/revisions\/62003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}