Apparently.

In this otherwise serious article about the 'sexualisation' of girls in the media, I came across this paragraph:

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School performance can also suffer. In one experiment cited, college-aged women were asked to try on and evaluate either a swim suit or a sweater. While they waited for 10 minutes while wearing the garment, they completed a math test.
"The results revealed that young women in swimsuits performed significantly worse ... than those wearing sweaters."

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Who came up with a genius idea like that?

"I'd like to apply for a government grant to sit in a big room with a bunch of 18 year old girls in bikinis. Eh? Why? Oh, er because I want to see their... er, see if they perform differently in a mental acuity test to er... girls in jumpers. Yes. That's it."

-- Edited by ddvmor at 08:08, 2007-02-21