From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Jul 04 2003 - 20:22:07 MDT
At 04:28 PM 7/4/03 -0700, Spike wrote:
>real explanation may be as simple as this: when I
>am riding I am having fun. Fun is inextricably
>linked to copulation. Ergo, all females within
>visual range get a free half a standard deviation
>added to their attractiveness.
Karen's account sounds generally right to me, as does Spike's, above
(raised titers of testosterone, cortisol, etc), but is there also a
side-consequence selection filter on the *sorts* of people a bike rider is
likely to *see*? Perhaps many more of the obese, the infirm, the old and
conceivably even the unattractive will be indoors or in cars, while the
healthy and spirited are strutting their stuff. (Granted, you'd also see
them from your car window, but they wouldn't look at you, unless you were
buzzing by in a Lamborghini--and I bet *those* guys have a different
experience of life, or why else would they pay so much for the damned things?)
Damien Broderick
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