{"id":6609,"date":"2013-05-07T23:37:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T18:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=6609"},"modified":"2013-05-07T23:37:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T18:37:20","slug":"musicians-really-are-sexier-scientists-find-that-carrying-a-guitar-increases-your-chance-of-getting-a-date-by-a-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=6609","title":{"rendered":"Musicians really ARE sexier: Scientists find that carrying a guitar increases your chance of getting a date by a third"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/m1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-6607\" alt=\"m1 (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/m1-1.jpg\" width=\"507\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/m1-1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/m1-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/m1-1-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a>Carrying a guitar can increase the chances of you getting a date by a third, according to a study by researchers from the University of South Brittany.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that women were 31% more likely to give their number to a man carrying a guitar &#8211; double the amount of people who would give their number to the same man when he was empty-handed.<\/p>\n<p>The study was led by Professor Nicolas Gueguen, a researcher in behavioural sciences at the University.<\/p>\n<p>Gueguen hired a 20-year-old man to approach 300 women aged between 18 and 22 in a shopping centre in Brittany.<\/p>\n<p>The man told each girl that they were &#8216;really pretty&#8217; and asked for her phone number so they could arrange a date.<\/p>\n<p>For the first 100 women he was holding a sports bag.<\/p>\n<p>For the next 100 women he approached them holding a guitar case.<\/p>\n<p>And for the final 100 women, the man asked them for their number without anything in his hands.<\/p>\n<p>When the actor was carrying the guitar case, 31% of the women gave them his number.<\/p>\n<p>When he was carrying nothing, 14% of the women gave them his number.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest turn off for the women was when he was carrying the sports bag, which had a success rate of only 9%.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrying a guitar can increase the chances of you getting a date by a third,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}