Researchers have found that men tend to overestimate how
attractive a woman is based on just a brief glimpse, whereas women who catch a
glance of a man are more likely to underestimate his handsomeness.
The findings,
published last month in the Evolution and Human Behavior journal, suggest the
cliche about ‘falling in love at first sight’ only goes one way. The study
appears to confirm the concept of ‘first-impression bias’ in both men and
women.
Conducted
in Australia, researchers asked around 400 volunteers to evaluate the
attractiveness of strangers from the opposite sex based on a blurry photo
without a clear view of their facial features, and then again from a clear
image.
The
researchers also randomized the order of presentation, switching between first
showing participants a blurry image or a clear image. Through this method, they
were apparently able to “isolate the unique effects of uncertainty” –
which was only identified when volunteers saw the blurred images first.
“When people have only incomplete information
about a potential partner, they must make inferences about their desirability,
leading to possible errors in judgment,” the researchers noted.
The
study looked at how people “balance the risks” of these errors of
misjudgment, and the differences between how men and women respond to this
uncertainty.
The
potential risks were described as either engaging in “regrettable mating behavior” when overestimating
desirability or “missing
a valuable opportunity” when under-perceiving attractiveness.
The
results showed that men, on average, give women the benefit of the doubt when
it comes to judging attractiveness, while the opposite held true when the roles
were reversed.
Further
analysis suggested “more
nuanced biases” in that men appeared to specifically
overestimate the attractiveness of unattractive (but not attractive) women,
while women exhibited a bias against attractive (but not unattractive) men.
While
noting that this was an “important finding,” the team said these were “broad quantitative effects” that
needed to be studied further to understand why “first-impression bias” existed to begin with.
They also highlighted the importance of conducting algorithm-based studies into
cognitive biases.
The
study noted that earlier research on perception bias, including examinations of
men overestimating how interested a woman was in them sexually, had emphasized “between-sex” differences.
4:00 COVID crisis really began with the Repo Crisis which began in 2019. US banks were suddenly not willing to lend to anybody in Europe, so the Federal Reserve had to step in. And just recently, I spoke to the top 3 major U.S. banks in New York, and they will not accept any European bond whatsoever for collateral. It's interesting to see the capital flows, and there are people who do know what's going to happen in advance and they begin to move their money; that's what our computer picks up.
5:12 He was put into prison under civil contempt, which you're not entitled to a trial. The statute says 18 months; they kept me for 7 years. I was finally released only after my case got to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ordered them to explain why I was in prison, and then they finally had to release me and said the case was moot. That's basically the way it goes. HSBC paid a criminal restitution of $606 million dollars.
8:30 The crisis really began when the ECB put the interest rates into negative territory; they did that in 2014. He warned them. Do not do this. You're not going to get out of it. They basically didn't listen. I think I'm at least partly responsible for why the Federal Reserve did not go that far. Once they went negative, nobody was going to buy their bonds. They were forced by law to buy the pension funds, and now all of the pension funds in Europe are insoluble. Now they have a major financial crisis.
9:30 Governments want to default on their debt. They can't do that because all the pension funds will be wiped out. Depending on the country, anywhere between 70% and 100% has to be invested in government bonds. So if you have governments default, you're going to have pension funds wiped out, then you're going to have millions of people storming their palaces with pitchforks. You'll no longer have mortgages, student loans, car loans, etc.
10:35 The problem that he has is that he is a die-hard Marxist for years. The idea of Marxism worked with the Russian Revolution only because serfdom continues in Russia and it wasn't abolished until 1861, whereas serfdom ended in the 15th century in Europe. When that ended, the people didn't own anything. All the property, all the wealth was in the hands of the aristocrats absolutely. They had nothing. So Marx's idea that let's have a revolution, go get their stuff, at least made sense, in the sense that these people didn't own anything at all to begin with. But trying to do that today is quite different: people own their own houses, their cars, they have a career, we're not starting from absolute zero, which is what made Marxism work to some degree, you know, to at least get it off the ground. But Schwab still talks of equality and things of this nature, but that's really kind of nuts because that very idea is what brought communism down.
12:12 How is he being so successful in convincing so many people that this is such a great idea? Why does he have this power?
12:21 He is a very strategic, very cunning type person. [Aren't there other leaders with these qualities who are pro-freedom, pro-capitalism?] He's not a frontman as some of these people think that he's just a frontman for Soros or DAVOS. No, he has been the brainchild behind a lot of this and they have been attracted to him. [Recall that Schwab was an acolyte of Kissinger.] He knows how to manipulate things. He's created this program Young Leaders for Tomorrow. He's taking people and basically indoctrinating them to his philosophies and then puts them in various offices. The head of the EU was on his board. The head of the IMF was on his board. The head of the ECB is on his board. Tedros from the WHO, he put him in there. The head of the United Nations was associated with the World Economic Forum. He knows exactly what he's doing. He's buying his way through government. So it's more or less indoctrinating them, and the politicians really did get scared when Trump was elected. In Washington, DC, they thought it was a fluke. No, they voted against you. You don't understand that. He beat 17 career politicians. It's not that he was the greatest white knight coming to save the world or something. It was that the voters didn't like them [i.e., the politicians] and they didn't want to hear that. So they would rather say it was a fluke. And the AFT, that did a piece in 2016 when Trump was elected, and suddenly that's when democracy became populism. Populism was bad; they just switched the words. The main reason they were so against Trump was because they were afraid that would happen to them, that the career politicians would be simply voted out. If you look at Schwab's 8 Points, besides his "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy about it," he says that the U.S. will no longer be a superpower; that will be shared by the United Nations. He has a whole bunch of things in there, in the 8 Points, that are very critical. And one of them is that democracy will no longer exist. They view that the people voted for Trump and are just too stupid and that we know better.
15:30 They view that the people voted for Trump and that they [Klaus Schwab and the DAVOS crowd] know better. If you look at the structure of Europe, the European Union, he had a hand in that. Yes, you still have a right to vote for an MP, but an MP has no right to make a law or veto a law. The laws are written by the European Commission which never stands for an election. The head of the EU is appointed. She never stands for election. So it's completely a facade that democracy even exists. It does not exist in Europe at all. The people have no right to say we don't like the way this is going, we're going to overthrow the government, we're going to vote them out. You can't vote them out.
16:20 Well, it seems that democracy has disappeared globally. We've been screaming from the rooftop that we don't want mandatory vaccines, we don't want . . . everything that's going on. We've got a dictator in Victoria now that can declare there's a pandemic even if there isn't one present. We've seen a destruction of democracy around the world. I wonder, Martin,
16:40 Are you aware of any of Australia's leaders, or Scott Morrison, or DAVOS clique, as Reiner Fuellmichcalled it? The carrot that Schwab is handing out [to the different governors, prime ministers, and leaders] is the end to democracy. So they think they no longer have to be accountable to anybody, so they think they're going to be able to pull this off. The whole COVID nonsense is about control. I can tell you absolutely that Schwab told people that the virus was coming. I heard rumors of that as early as September 2019. I believe not only was it deliberately created in a lab but that it was deliberately planted in China in an effort to blackmail China into joining the Great Reset. They had to get rid of Trump to do it, and they had to get both Putin and China under their wings as well. Marxism would have worked had they had Europe and the United States at the same time. But it's just nonsense. I was actually called in by China to help them become capitalists. I flew over there and it was interesting to watch. The Chinese were substantially different than the Russians. The Russians basically went from communism to an oligarchy. In China, I was impressed that they were not interfering; they were letting everything go and they were tracking it. They were tracking 249 varieties of tea in China. I had no clue there were that many. They wanted me to answer why this one tea was selling for $1 here but $5 someplace else. I asked, "Where does it come from?" And they said here. And I said, "Well, first you have transportation costs. Secondly, it must be a good tea, since some people are willing to pay more than something else." They didn't understand these things. (I wonder what year he is talking about.)
17:00 Obedience to Authority, Stanley Milgram, 1974. Came out of the Nazis during
WWII, with the "just following orders" ethic. He discovered
that if the government tells them to do something, they'll do it. This is
why you see people driving around in their car by themselves with a
mask.
Civil unrest will
accelerate the crash? Yes. Google the papers from Amazon on how to prevent a union from forming, based on a study that created a diversity
index. The more diverse a company is, the less likely they are to form a
union. From that concept, can you extrapolate what it must be like trying to
form a sovereign nation with the breadth and variety of immigration into the
United States?
The mRNA vaccines train the
body to produce antibodies in the blood but not in the mucous membranes that
normally protect our respiratory tract. The COVID-19 vaccinations are
turning off lymphocyte production where they need it the most while amping it
up in the bloodstream which is where it gets much worse. For those
without the vaccine, a natural infection will remain localized in the
respiratory tract. But for those who've been vaccinated, unrelated cells
deep inside the body react to the respiratory infection by creating a new spike
protein which then causes the cell that created it to be attacked by the immune
system. Experts warned us of this last year:
The claim that COVID
vaccines will cause more severe disease through antibody-dependent enhancement,
ADE, is not yet supported.
You sold us out to
globalism. You are not working for Canada! You are working for your globalist
partners! I wonder how much they are paying you to betray Canada. What do we do
to traitors in Canada, Mr. Trudeau? We used to hang--hang them for treason.
And you're doing that very same thing to us now. We know what you're
doing."
9:31 The chart where Eades shows the fats consumed
starting in 1971, he states that that is when the population began eating more
vegetable oils. We used to consume
animal fats on a regular basis, lard. Now
we’re consuming vegetable oils. I was shocked at the level of consumption of soy oil.
9:55 He mentions the Economic Research Service, or ERS.
10:45 He shows the decline in beef consumption.
11:05 To explain the increase in vegetable oils and the decrease in the consumption of beef, he points to two reasons: one, people are eating out more. And when you eat out, you lose all control over what you eat. He says you may order a steak and some sauteed asparagus, but you don't know what they sauteed it in. [I think of this every time and it is one of the reasons why eating out, though sometimes necessary, is more and more disappointing.] And you don't know what they seared the steak in. When he was a kid, he says he never went to a restaurant until he was in the 7th grade other than when his family was traveling somewhere. Other than that, every meal was at home. We prepared at home. Now, half the people eat out and lose far too much control over what they eat. None of us know what any of this stuff is cooked in.
On a side note, I ate a Panda Inn chain in Denver, and my stomach flipped in knots. It was so bad that I called the restaurant to ask what oils they used to cook their foods in. I was surprised that they told me: it was soybean oil, which sounded harmless enough and ubiquitous enough to me. But I did learn that soybean oil is more fat-generating and diabetes-generating than coconut oil or fructose.
12:15 He cites a time when he went undercover as a chef at a chain restaurant to find out what kind of oils they use in their cooking. And what he found was that they use Canola Oil, the most ubiquitous [because it's tasteless--neutral aromas] oil in outdoor dining and Soybean Salad Oil, and that's what they cook EVERYTHING in: steak, fish, burgers, French Fries. When you order a salad with olive oil and vinegar, he says that you don't know if that olive oil hasn't been adulterated because of a huge problem with Olive Oil adulteration right now. And B, that's a little tiny bit of olive oil, while the rest of your meal is slathered in Soybean Oil. Even at stores, check the ingredients on package-wrapped sandwiches, crackers, or pastries. You will find Canola Oil everywhere. By the way, there is no plant called Canola. Canola is a compound noun: it combines Canada with oil, hence, Canola. Canola Oil has 32% Linoleic Acid. Soybean Oil has 61% Linoleic Oil. So the more we eat out, the more oils we get. And we're getting a pernicious oil: that's linoleic oil that contains linoleic acid. What's the hazard of Linoleic Acid, you ask?
That Linoleic Acid Chart, 1961-2008, and how it contributes to subcutaneous body fat, compiled by Guyenet and Susan Carlson, 2015, can be found here. Find more scholarly articles by Stephan Guyenet, Ph.D here. Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, PUFAs.
15:45 After 1980, our attitudes toward saturated fats changed. We were told to be scared of it. And because we were frightened by it, we've gone along with all of these guidelines to avoid saturated fats.
16:05 Graph. The blue-green lines are the things that we've been told to eat more of, and in the red are those things we've been told to eat less of.
Eat more vegetables, fruits, grains, vegetable oils. Eat fewer meats, eggs, whole milk, animal fats, butter. From 1971 to 2011, there's been about a 20.5% decrease in the consumption of saturated fat.
Changes since 1980, Linoleic Acid has gone way, way up. Saturated fat has gone down and our calories, primarily, the carbohydrate calories have gone up. So it's kind of the perfect storm:
1. Wholesale adoption of vegetable oils.
2. Increased consumption of refined carbs.
3. The demonization of saturated fat.
Hypothesizes that linoleic acid promotes obesity. How does it promote obesity? What's the mechanism?
18:00 Saturated fats protect against obesity. In addition, the CI [Carbohydrate + Insulin] Hypothesis is important.
21:38 Food > ATP > gives us Life. We eat food and break it down to high-energy electrons, or ATP, which is the currency of life. Now we do all this in the mitochondria.
26:30 Thousands of mitochondria in each cell, and you have billions of cells. 150 revolutions per second, and with each revolution they're cranking off an ATP. They can churn out your body weight in ATP daily. One can make 195 pounds of ATP. That is phenomenal.
28:35 We all want to increase our mitochondria and our mitochondria biosynthesis. We can do this by eating right and exercising. Great paper by Nick Lane, who has written the book, Power, Sex, and Suicide, 2018.
29:20 Hydrogen peroxide creates local insulin resistance at the cellular level. Now, I am not talking about total body insulin resistance. This can be protective of excess nutrients going into the cells from over-eating. And it's one way the cells have to prevent taking in too much stuff that they don't want.
