Does Science Think You're Pretty?

Live from the Poundstone Institute

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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

First episode ever! We ask a researcher if we're as pretty as we think we are, and we talk to a man who goes around swabbing surfers, for science. Plus, TV legend Dick Cavett takes our personality test. Spoiler alert: he passes.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to live from the poundstone Institute.
0:03.5	Up first is the morning news podcast from NPR.
0:07.0	When news moves fast from Washington in the Middle East to the latest on health care,
0:12.0	up first is the quick morning update on what
0:14.2	happened and what you need to start the day. Wake up with up first every
0:18.7	weekday morning on the NPR1 app and wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:26.0	Here's something that just came in this week.
0:28.0	A recent survey found that 15% of people think the word software refers to comfortable clothing.
0:34.2	I, you know what, I didn't know what software, I didn't, you know what, as a comic, I stand
0:40.0	out saying there's a lot of times I said, what do you do for a living, what do you do for a living what do you do for
0:42.5	living and the first people who ever said to me you know I developed software I
0:46.2	thought it was like Tupperware I had no idea I'd you know there's nothing worse than losing the
0:51.5	lid to the to the software
0:53.0	there's a lot of things I don't know
0:57.0	what about wingman do you know what a wingman is
1:00.0	yeah there's the social wingman who is with you when you're out looking for dates, I guess,
1:05.7	in the world.
1:07.1	Do you know wingman, this young guy?
1:09.5	Do you know what a wingman is?
1:11.0	Yeah.
1:12.0	All right. So I only recently was introduced to the idea that it had
1:14.4	anything to do with dating. What does it mean? It's someone that would help you at the bar. Help you
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