SIO386: Actually, Opposites Very Much Do NOT Attract
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
It's another fun science thingy! Today's guest is Tanya Horwitz, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and the Institute for Behavioral Genetics with University of Colorado at Boulder. She is one of the lead authors on a new meta-analysis of studies including millions of couples over more than a century. In the vast majority of traits, sames(?) attract. There are a few exceptions that are interesting to talk about and we go through those as well. This one is fun and relatable, and even if the top-line conclusion is pretty predictable, the data is very interesting and the discussion was great!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to series inquiries only this is episode 386 I'm your host Thomas Smith |
| 0:21.6 | and I'm excited to bring you another interesting science thingy today I'll be speaking with |
| 0:26.1 | Tonya Horowitz one of the authors of a new meta study very large meta study that looked at whether |
| 0:33.0 | or not opposites attract in human well I guess it would be reproduction to put it you know not |
| 0:39.8 | romantically we saw this study and thought it was fascinating and not just for like the top line |
| 0:46.0 | take away which I think is I don't kind of obvious rather for the details you know there's a lot of |
| 0:51.8 | interesting data in here there are a lot of traits that were looked at a lot of fun stuff to talk |
| 0:56.5 | about which results were surprising which weren't and also this area of study is something that I hadn't |
| 1:02.7 | really thought about before so talking to Tonya a little bit about this specific kind of junction |
| 1:07.3 | of specialties that she has so that's what we're going to talk about before we do a couple things |
| 1:11.8 | last episode stormy decisis also known as doctor Alan smurbeck mentioned that we might do a Q&A |
| 1:18.1 | and I posted the idea on patreon and we got a lot of takers we got a lot of questions so if you'd like |
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| 1:29.7 | a question there maybe vote on the questions you want to hear we already got a good sample there so |
| 1:34.9 | going to be fun can't wait to do that excited to get back on with stormy and while you're there |
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| 2:05.1 | the cooler people who do it and I'm trying to peer pressure I've been trying a different angle |
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