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Saturday, October 18, 2008

New economic bust indicator.

More from the annals of advanced academic research...

An enterprising academic who took it upon himself to study 40 years of Playboy-magazine pictorials found that bigger, more robust bunnies signal a bad economy.

The bare-market lovelies tend to be older, heavier, taller and have an overall more grown-up look, according to the research published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

That's because worried guys subconsciously look for "a more able woman to take care of them and other people," said Terry Pettijohn II, an assistant professor of psychology who conducted the study... [NY Post].
My mother was right, I should've been a professor.