RE: push your bike, risk a beating

From: J Corbally (icorb@indigo.ie)
Date: Sat Jul 05 2003 - 13:50:00 MDT

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    >- ----- Original Message -----
    >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

    No, but it helps:)

    James...
    *Who thinks his seat has too much padding*

    >Mark Walker, PhD
    >Research Associate, Philosophy, Trinity College
    >University of Toronto
    >Room 214 Gerald Larkin Building
    >15 Devonshire Place
    >Toronto
    >M5S 1H8
    >www.permanentend.org

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