Men's Friends & Smarter, Richer

A recent study says that men are less likely to be friends with other men who's significant other is similar to their own. Dangerous Dave explores what happened and how women reacted to the same study. Plus, would you rather be 5 times richer, smarter or better looking? Smarter took top in this poll.

Episode Transcript

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This is deeper in the den withdangerous day. Think about your closest male
buddies, now think about their significantothers. Are they attractive or are they
not your type? A study foundthat men are more likely to be friends
if they do not share the sametaste in women. It was fairly a
small scale. There was only thirtyeight half men half women, asked the

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traits they prefer in a potential mate, then show them photos of twenty members
of the opposite sex and told torank them based on attractiveness. Then they
were thrown into a speed friending eventwith interacting with people in the study men
and women, women and women.They found that men are more likely to

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bond with men that had different preferencesin women. However, there was no
noticeable trend among the women friending women. It sounds like men did not know
the other men that completed the attractivesurveys, so they didn't know how they
answered. So it was like menwere caught avoiding other men who thought their

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significant other was hot or is itmore just instinctual? By the way,
the most important trait that men inthe study picked is their preference for women.
Interesting personality top the list. Followedby sense of humor, then physical
attractiveness. For women, the mostimportant characteristic was friendliness, intelligence, and

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interesting personality. Yearly income and specialnon work related talents were the least important
characteristics in a potential partner for bothmale and female participants. Wow, really,
I just come trying to wonder whenmy wife keeps buying me a bag.
It fits my head perfectly. Well, here's a random question. Somebody

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asked, and if you could chooseone, what would you pick? Would
you rather be five times richer,five times more attractive, or five times
smarter, meaning your IQ five timesof what it is right now. Fifteen
hundred people took the poll online.The winner is smarter, Richer came a

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close second. Is it really thatthe right call? Though? The average
IQ's around one hundred, So we'retalking five hundred points. That would leave
you in a world surrounded by idiots, wouldn't it. So The poll had
other options too. Here are allsix and how people voted. Five times
smarter twenty nine percent of the vote, but just one percent behind that.

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Five times richer, five times moreattractive was number three at sixteen percent.
Five times your current mental strength atfifteen percent that's defined as working well under
pressure and being more mentally resilient,five times stronger physically or five times more
popular. Both of those were justsix percent of the vote. I guess

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I would go with richer because Iknow that one thing that comes with five
times richer is that the richer youare to a lot of people, you're
more attractive to me. Again foranother episode of Deeper in the Den with
Dangerous daved right here,