A: "this is a digress.

But i was just thinking, since men look for different qualities in women when it comes to STM and LTM [Ed: Short Term Mating and Long Term Mating] and assuming that men tend to prefer STM when they are younger and LTM once they reach the age of settling down, does this mean that if women were to surround themselves with men of about the same age range as them, like we are now in University, women who are shy, faithful, appear to have less sexual accessibility would tend to be neglected more or less at a younger age and get pursued more when they reach a more marriageable age? And the vice-versa for women who possess the ideal qualities for STM?"

B: "For younger women who are shy and faithful, i would agree they are low on their sexual accessibility. If they are low on their sexual accessibility, would they be more popular among men then? As we learnt, men cannot tolerate other men inseminating their partners, hence the former would be more than happy to have a partner hardly sexually accessible to other men."


Heh heh.

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"Being conservative, in the sense of using a very low significance level, has a cost: the smaller the significance level, the larger the critical value, and the more difficult it becomes to reject the null when the null is false. In fact, the most conservative thing to do is never to reject the null hypothesis - but if that is your view, then you never need to look at any statistical evidence, for you will never change your mind!"

This would seem to apply to engaging in arguments with some people too.


"Moralistic punishment is the strategy of punishing others who disobey a moral rule and also sanctioning those who do not punish others for breaking the rule. In principle, moralistic punishment strategies could create cooperation in large groups. However, this mechanism will stabilize any norm that becomes common, whether adaptive or not (wearing ties to work is a humble example of the latter) (Boyd and Richerson 1992)."

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Bandar Ranked Among World's Top Cities - "Bandar Seri Begawan has been rated 97th in a recent survey of attractive and desirable cities by the Economist Intelligence Unit. The survey was made from 127 cities worldwide"
By that logic, Port Moresby, rated 127th in a recent survey of attractive and desirable cities by the Economist Intelligence Unit, made from 127 cities worldwide, is also ranked among the world's top cities.

M&S in £10m team building dance exercise - "M&S employees are donning fancy dress and dancing in the aisles as part of a reported £10 million team building exercise. It is the brainchild of US business guru and motivator Mary Gober, who calls it "inspirational dancing"... She has been drafted in by M&S boss Stuart Rose to run a series of sessions for the 55,000 shop staff, but shopworkers' union Usdaw described it as a waste of money."

'Whole generation' cannot cook - ""We met some 10-year-old children who could not recognise a bowl of tuna. One pupil called it a donkey," she said. She added that children regularly failed to recognise common vegetables such as leeks and onions."

Some Video Games May Make Kids Less Tolerant of Aggression - "He found that games with a lot of kicking and punching -- as opposed to shooting and killing -- might make kids less tolerant of aggression. The children who played the punching and kicking games were more likely to break up fights when they saw them on the playground, he said."

Psychopaths could be best financial traders? - "A team of U.S. scientists has found the emotionally impaired are more willing to gamble for high stakes and that people with brain damage may make good financial decisions, the Times newspaper reported Monday."

Nice email signature: "Love,Peace, and Chicken Grease, (name)"