Something to Shout About

It would be rude not to comment, after all, the country is about to be engulfed by a bird flu pandemic, we’re all struggling home through four feet of snow (er, sorry, that should be inches) and there’s an alien horde about to invade and vaporise us all*.

Still, we can all rest easy in our beds tonight because the University of Central Lancashire has come to the rescue with some ground breaking new research. Just what would we do without those egg heads?

Yeap, those clever white coat wearing folks in Lancashire have decided that high-flying men are not as attractive to women looking for love than those with an average job. So, it’s a good old hefty hurrah for Mr. Average then...

However, this new ground breaking discovery also revealed the usual set of obvious results when, after asking 186 female students to pick their favourite photographs from 60 men in their 20s and rate them on a physical attractiveness scale, they discovered that the students preferred the good-looking men!

But before all the Mr. Averages out there in blog land shuffle off to continue with the lonely and silent weeping, there’s yet more revelations to gives us “Averages” an ever so slender piece of hope to cling on to...

Alongside each photograph the researches added additional information on the man's age, what he was looking for in a partner and, more importantly, their profession. These professions included the usual high-status jobs, such as architects and company directors, medium-status positions such as teachers and so-called lower-status roles such as gardeners and postmen.

But when these professions were applied to the complex equation written on the back of a post-it note, the good-looking men with the high-status jobs dropped down the ladder to be overtaken by the medium status jobs.

The rather smug lead researcher Simon Chu revealed that the team has come to the conclusion that the high-earning career men were deemed to be "too good to be true" and that women seemed to feel high-flyers would not be good fathers.

Still, they obviously didn’t ask any of the women I know and see down at the gym on a daily basis. You also only have to look at your “average” premiership footballer player to see yet another stunner draped over their arm in their quest to do a "Beckham". Also, I can speak from experience with my failed blind date adventure with my stunner.

So, is this yet another survey to make women look like innocent little pussy cats whilst they’re really just looking for someone with a fast car and fat wallet? What, me a cynic? Surely not?!

* Umm. Possibly.