How men respond to 'sexy' female news anchors
If you’ve followed CBC’s programming the last few years, you’ve noticed the meteoric rise of one of the network’s bona fide stars: Amanda Lang.
Having excelled as the senior business reporter for CBC News, she’s now got her own, fantastic show – The Lang & O’Leary Exchange – alongside Kevin O’Leary, the resident Simon Cowell of the channel's other hit, Dragon’s Den.
What’s to attribute for Lang’s success? Well, no one’s exactly mistaking her for Rachel Dratch, which is to say, she’s not totally rough on the old peepers. Yet the 40-year-old has endured not because of her looks but her smarts, wit and palpable way of making geeky economists melt sitting across the news desk from her.
Lang? She’s the exception, it appears, since many attractive female anchors these days make Snooki sound like Hillary Clinton.
All this is interesting, we should say, because of a new research study that shows how men respond to so-called “sexy” news anchors.
According to the report released this week, men pay more attention to better-looking news anchors but, of course, remember much less from their broadcasts.
To uncover such rocket science, researchers had male participants watch two newscasts that were the same except for one variable: in the first version, the female broadcaster “was dressed in a tight-fitting dark blue jacket and skirt that accented her waist-to-hip ratio … She also wore bright red lipstick and a necklace,” the report notes. In the second showing, the woman wore a “shapeless and loose-fitting dark blue jacket and skirt.” No lipstick. No plunging necklace.
Quite hilariously (or, is it, pathetically?) men remembered “significantly” more information from the more modest woman’s broadcast, despite suggesting they prefer the sexed-up program.
Now, here’s where you’re saying, Wow, shocking! And, indeed, scientifically pegging men as pigs would be like taking to a lab to prove Keith Olbermann is a wiener. A little too easy.
Still, next time you shake your head when someone like, say, Ines Sainz pops up on your screen, now you know – once and for all, maybe – why she’s there.
By Jason Buckland, MSN Money
Posted by: Jim | Jan 27, 2022 4:54:19 AM
One could replicate the study with women but instead of using a woman, include a cute baby in the picture and you would find the same results. This is very old 'news' and is why many politicians have been advised to have a beautiful woman with missmatched clothing stand beside them when they deliver bad news. The men focus on her beauty, the women on the mismatched clothing and the message gets delivered without anyone absorbing the bad news.
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Posted by: John | Jan 28, 2022 6:19:00 PM
Jim...great comment. I couldn't have said it better myself!