I linked to a link from Rob Henderson about women recommending more attractive women cut off more hair, which he interpreted as intrasexual competition, sweet sabotage. Bethany picked that up and ran with it and though she found some positive things about the study and its followup, she found that the study mostly did not support the competition idea very well, and actually pointed in the opposite direction in some ways. There was a telltale sign that the authors were prepared to regard any data as supportive of their hypothesis somehow.
That should remind me not to rely entirely on reading only the abstract when I relink a study. I hope you didn't repeat the claim to a lot of people on my say-so. If you did, please blame me. Reading only the abstract is common for me, and it has its dangers.
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