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Anyway, there's a collection of studies over the past couple of decades that seem to show that the type of man a woman is attracted to changes based upon where they are in their menstrual cycle.

This new meta-study purports to show that those studies are wrong.

The thorough review of research on the drivers of human reproduction, in the journal Emotion Review, highlighted the importance of verification in the scientific method, as well as potential problems in how science is reported in the media. Wood and her team found that the correlations between menstrual cycle and mate preference declined over time, that is, most subsequent attempts to replicate the finding showed less of an effect.
The researchers also revealed that papers that did not show a link between menstrual cycle and sexual preference — that only showed no such correlation existed — were much less likely to be accepted for publication in a journal, often despite more precise methodology.

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What do women want? Here’s what scientists might have gotten wrong
Over the last two decades, studies in reproductive biology and psychology have purported to show a correlation between what women want in a male partner and the time of the month — demonstrating that which guy catches a woman’s eye changes across the menstrual cycle.

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  1. Oh darn. It's closed for routine maintenance. 

  2. The scientific literature hasn't been free from sensationalist crap at least since the Piltdown Man hoax.

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