Bad news guys... If you think you have a chance of competing with that 'man's man' across the room by using your wit instead, forget about it. Ask any girl and she'll probably tell you that the most important characteristic for attraction is humor, but science says otherwise. They're not at fault really, because girls truly believe that they prefer funny over hot but the truth is they can actually THINK a guy is funny BECAUSE he's bangin', not because he really truly IS a comedian! That explains a lot if you're across the bar going, "She thinks that joke is actually funny? Psshhh!"

A new study (yeah I know, another one, haha) at sciencedirect.com had women listen to audio of men being witty versus watching a video of them doing the same thing and the researchers found that if the women could see the men too, they found them to be funnier, especially if she was in her fling phase of dating. This makes sense to me as in my experience, ALL of us are always talking about how hot he or she is and if we'd hop in the sack with said person or not. Guys have gotten the bad rap of being that way but girls are wired the same way, at least all the ones I've had occasion to observe. Of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder, there appear to be some common threads.

 

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The problem with the study though in my view is that we weren't created to operate on a single sense. Dating just like every other experience is a full-on sensory experience and all 5 of our senses (and sometimes a 6th one) come into play when deciding or feeling anything we come into contact with. When someone comes a long that ignites us it's very rarely a single sense that puts us in that euphoric state and when it's all 6, look out! It's rare but it's possible...

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