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Fertility drive women’s desire for luxury: Women demonstrate a stronger desire to purchase conspicuous luxury goods during ovulation (www.eurekalert.org)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/scientificarticles/p/1376113/fertility-drive-womens-desire-for-luxury-women-demonstrate-a-stronger-desire-to-purchase

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[–] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

Color me skeptical after having just read about a completely unrelated study that used fabricated data and has been highly influential for a quarter century. Might just be me, but something feels off to me about this.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    If you take a bunch of people and measure their baseline behaviour, and then subject them all to a hormonal change, is it really that surprising that you're then able to find measurable group-level differences in how they behave?

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