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Seriously, if this conclusion stands to more rigorous tests, it will make a huge impact on females in figuring out with which man to develop a long term relationship early in the process---that may help reduce the sky high divorce rate in this world today.
But I doubt that this can stand solid when sample sizes go up, or being tested on a different continent---europe, asia, or africa... If you read the paper, they included 70 or so men for such a big conclusion. That brings up another issue regarding the focus of scientific publications today has shifted towards the newsworthiness of a study rather than the scientific reliability.
Guys with big testes should go to the street to protest because of this potentially misleading information on their fatherhood quality that may be as good, if not better, as guys with small testes....
Makes sense, evolution wise women are drawn to the big strong risk takers, get pregnant, then find another male more suitable to domestic life to help raise the kids
I once read a study where they found a SIGNIFICANT percentage of husbands were unknowingly not the actual fathers of their kids
Except dead beat and absent fathers aren't really the risk takers. They're the permanent adolescents, the play boys, the ones who fear growing up, fear loving and bonding with their children, fear being parents or partners.
I definitely do not believe this "study". And there is no real study that has ever shown that men prefer to raise children that are not their own. That's more like the way of the dodo bird. You see far more abused and murdered children by men who are not the fathers of the children than by the fathers.
Except dead beat and absent fathers aren't really the risk takers. They're the permanent adolescents, the play boys, the ones who fear growing up, fear loving and bonding with their children, fear being parents or partners.
I've seen many playboys who are excellent fathers.
Seriously, if this conclusion stands to more rigorous tests, it will make a huge impact on females in figuring out with which man to develop a long term relationship early in the process---that may help reduce the sky high divorce rate in this world today.
But I doubt that this can stand solid when sample sizes go up, or being tested on a different continent---europe, asia, or africa... If you read the paper, they included 70 or so men for such a big conclusion. That brings up another issue regarding the focus of scientific publications today has shifted towards the newsworthiness of a study rather than the scientific reliability.
Guys with big testes should go to the street to protest because of this potentially misleading information on their fatherhood quality that may be as good, if not better, as guys with small testes....
Being a good father has nothing to do with divorce. I know plenty of couples who are divorced and the fathers aren't any less fatherly as married couples. In fact, I know a father or 2 who are married and they're far from father of the year.
I'm sorry, but 70 men is not a fair enough sampling given the number of fathers around the world.
And fwiw, I did read the paper and it states:
Charles Snowdon, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, points out that the paper’s own statistics show testes size explains only a fraction of the variation in paternal care. “There are lots of other variables that affect fatherhood,” he says, citing as examples social environment and prior experience looking after younger siblings when the men were children themselves"
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