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Just before he was arrested on suspicion of human trafficking, controversial network star (and former kickboxer) Andrew Tate was involved in a highly publicized feud with environmental activist Greta Thunberg.
"Hello Greta Thunberg," wrote Le Tate, "I own 33 cars. My Bugatti has a W16 engine and my two Ferrari 812s have a V12 engine. This is just the beginning. Please provide your email address so I can send a complete list of my car collection and emissions Their petitions." She replied to him (in a response that became a hit) that he had "little dick energy." Now it turns out there's a very good chance she was right.
It's an almost universal cliché - that men who buy fast sports cars are actually overcompensating for Being a little less "blessed" between the legs. So true, you'll say it's just a stereotype and even insulting - well, what would you say if we revealed to you that a group of psychologists not only studied it scientifically, but apparently actually found some evidence to suggest that it's true?
Psychologists have recently been able to prove the long-held assumption that there is a link between owning a sports car and a small penis.
Yes yes, what you read.
It is important to remember that the study has not yet been peer-reviewed by other scientists, but in the words of the authors: "These results raise intriguing questions for further research."
The group of scientists from UCL University in London conducted a study and found for the first time that there is a psychological connection between fast cars and a small penis.
"During this experiment, we were able to manipulate men about what they believed about the size of their penis compared to others and then tested how interested they were in a sports car."
How did you test it?
To see if there was any truth to this, a team led by Professor Daniel C Richardson from UCL's Department of Experimental Psychology recruited 200 men aged 18-74.
Participants completed an online test, which they were told tested their ability to remember facts while shopping for various products.
In each round of the experiment, the participants were shown a statement on the screen for seven seconds, followed by an image of a product - some of them luxury and some of them everyday and cheap items.
They were asked to indicate how much they wanted to receive the product.
Finally, show them the original statement (or a slightly modified statement) again and ask them if it is true or false.
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Now comes the tricky part - hidden within all these questions were some statements about the average penis size.
These specific statements always appeared before a picture of a sports car.
The thing is, even though the participants were led to believe that these statements were facts and true to the truth - sometimes they weren't.
In order to try to manipulate the participants' self-esteem, some of the group were told that the average size of an erect penis was 18cm, while the rest were told it was 10cm - with the true average being somewhere in between.
The idea was that men who were told the average size was much larger than it was would believe their penis was smaller than average as a result—and vice versa for those who were told the average was smaller than their penis.
When they calculated the results, the team found that men who were led to believe their penises were smaller than average were more likely to rate sports cars as most desirable.
The results also found an effect of age - with this trend being much more evident in men over 30.
A man with sports cars (Photo: Giphy)
"Perhaps there is something specific that links cars to gender in the male psyche. This hypothesis is supported by the data in this article, and would explain the existence of the phallic link with cars in jokes, advertisements and academic discourse," concluded the authors of the study, "the luxury car industry may not be willing to acknowledge the connection this one, but our results certainly do provide a connection."
The scientific website iflscience, where the study was reported, concluded that it certainly provides food for thought - and competes for this month's "Research titles we refuse to believe are real" award.
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