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Good dancing may be sign of male health, scientists say BBC
« on: September 08, 2010, 09:57:49 PM »
Dr Nick Neave looks at the difference between "good" and "bad" dancing

Scientists say they've carried out the first rigorous analysis of dance moves that make men attractive to women.

The researchers say that movements associated with good dancing may be indicative of good health and reproductive potential.
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Their findings are published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.

"When you go out to clubs people have an intuitive understanding of what makes a good and bad dancer," said co-author Dr Nick Neave, an evolutionary psychologist at Northumbria University, UK.

"What we've done for the very first time is put those things together with a biometric analysis so we can actually calculate very precisely the kinds of movements people focus on and associate them with women's ratings of male dancers."

Dr Neave asked young men who were not professional dancers, to dance in a laboratory to a very basic drum rhythm and their movements with 12 cameras.

These movements were then converted into a computer-generated cartoon - an avatar - which women rated on a scale of one to seven. He was surprised by the results.

"We thought that people's arms and legs would be really important. The kind of expressive gestures the hands [make], for example. But in fact this was not the case," he said.
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    We found that (women paid more attention to) the core body region: the torso, the neck, the head”

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"We found that (women paid more attention to) the core body region: the torso, the neck, the head. It was not just the speed of the movements, it was also the variability of the movement. So someone who is twisting, bending, moving, nodding."

Movements that went down terribly were twitchy and repetitive - so called "Dad dancing".

Dr Neave's aim was to establish whether young men exhibited the same courtship movement rituals in night clubs as animals do in the wild. In the case of animals, these movements give information about their health, age, their reproductive potential and their hormone status.

"People go to night clubs to show off and attract the opposite sex so I think it's a valid way of doing this," Dr Neave explained.

"In animals, the male has to be in good physical quality to carry out these movements. We think the same is happening in humans and certainly the guys that can put these movements together are going to be young and fit and healthy."

Dr Neave also took blood samples from the volunteers. Early indications from biochemical tests suggest that the men who were better dancers were also more healthy.

 By Pallab Ghosh  Science correspondent, BBC News 

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Re: Good dancing may be sign of male health, scientists say BBC
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2010, 09:09:27 PM »
Men who are good dancer are usually gays.

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Re: Good dancing may be sign of male health, scientists say BBC
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2010, 03:03:56 AM »
Ingon si Betty hawod ka sa ballroom dancing! ;)

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Re: Good dancing may be sign of male health, scientists say BBC
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2010, 05:00:28 AM »
kamao lang ug gamay Tess..hehe..

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Re: Good dancing may be sign of male health, scientists say BBC
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2010, 11:49:54 PM »
Yes, I agree with this. Physical health must be their priority.

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Re: Good dancing may be sign of male health, scientists say BBC
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2011, 04:55:38 PM »
I think you are right this make the man completely fit and also refresh their mind.

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Re: Good dancing may be sign of male health, scientists say BBC
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2011, 05:42:10 PM »
Mao kaha diay nga wa koy uyab kay di man ko kamao mosayaw...  :P

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