KOmmun KairOja comments

but these numbers are laughable and pathetic. This sort of skewed testing is what caused Andrew Wakefield to "prove" the MMR vaccine was linked to autism and subsequently be struck off from the medical profession. A disgrace to scientific research, this review, that Journal Biology Letters should be ashamed of themselves, lowering the standard and thus opinion of Australian research

I mean, seriously? with a sample size of 68 individuals tested with 189 images, there is no way that a correlation could be seen as reliable by any professional scientific researcher. If you had a 6 month global study testing, under as controlled as possible conditions, and your # individuals totalled around 5000+ and each individual had to sit through a series of 500 images of the opposite sex, AND the results were repeated world wide, then maybe

"idiots, idiots everywhere" -- current PhD student (BioInformatics) commenting on the behaviour of the public acceptance of 'science' without critical evaluation