Re: push your bike, risk a beating

From: Mark Walker (mark@permanentend.org)
Date: Fri Jul 04 2003 - 15:47:33 MDT

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    From: "Harvey Newstrom" <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>
    To: <extropians@extropy.org>
    Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 4:59 PM
    Subject: RE: push your bike, risk a beating

    > Spike writes:
    > > ...I wish someone could explain to me
    > > why it is that riding a motorcycle causes all
    > > women in view to appear more attractive, by a good
    > > half a standard deviation.
    >
    > It's because motorcycle riders like to imagine that objects in mirror are
    > closer than they appear....
    >

    Perhaps it's the vibration....

    Mark

    Mark Walker, PhD
    Research Associate, Philosophy, Trinity College
    University of Toronto
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