Seth Shostak of SETI Institute Knows Women
At the High Energy Physics Division Seminar, Seth Shostak taught us a few things. To figure if there is intelligent life out there, we have to answer the question, "why did man become intelligent"? Nature does not care about smarts, only survival and procreation. Theorists say that it was the tight social structure that put smarts at a premium when, like a Peacock, evidence of good genes and no mutations were observed in males telling good stories and making jokes (bar chatter).

The theory is that women will seek out men with superior "game" - evidence of smarts. However Dr. Shostak asked, "why then do women need to be smart?" There were a few female PhD Physicists in the room, (we will call them chicks), so a rhetorical response was not the best course of action. Dr. Shostak answered his question by saying that desired women posses charisma (also evidence of smarts) in order to KEEP the man from becoming distracted by another women (sounds reasonable). He went on to make the observation that at a restaurant you can easily tell whether a couple has just started dating - the man does all the talking in order to impress the female. Or they have been dating for some time - the woman does all the talking to keep the male interested.

Unfortunately, in too many cases, women make the mistake of confusing "charismatic chatter" with plain old "nagging". Without this affect however, we wouldn't have good sitcoms on TV.....

- Doobs was 100% Correct @ 10:01 AM