{"id":291,"date":"2007-10-13T20:55:41","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T20:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2007-11-14T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T21:12:00","slug":"knowing-what-you-cant-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/knowing-what-you-cant-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowing what you can&#8217;t see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geoffrey Miller recently published research which clearly shows that human males can detect whether or not females are fertile.\u00a0 The data support the conclusion that males can detect whether or not females are ovulating, even if they don&#8217;t know that that&#8217;s what they are detecting.\u00a0 His unusual study took place in lap-dancing clubs and the measure of detection was how much the men tipped the dancers.\u00a0 The conclusion: a woman is sexier when most fertile.\u00a0 His paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unm.edu\/%7Egfmiller\/cycle_effects_on_tips.pdf\">Ovulatory cycle effects                  on tip earnings by lap-dancers: Economic evidence for human estrus? is here<\/a> and you can read a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/science\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9942043\">synopsis by The Economist here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The research doesn&#8217;t say how males detect the fertility of females, but the data certainly illustrates that our communication is far more comprehensive than words alone and animal instincts play a large part in economics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoffrey Miller recently published research which clearly shows that human males can detect whether or not females are fertile.\u00a0 The data support the conclusion that males can detect whether or not females are ovulating, even if they don&#8217;t know that that&#8217;s what they are detecting.\u00a0 His unusual study took place in lap-dancing clubs and the &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/knowing-what-you-cant-see\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Knowing what you can&#8217;t see<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-4H","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}