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Obviously - and I'm sure you know this - the 'research' as it were is not credible due to low sample size, qualitative method, placebo effect, bias due to self-rating etc etc.
Well people, I am afriad that this was all a dirty dirty lie on my part

I did no such testing, I have no idea if a black belt is the secret to picking up women (although it does help hold your trousers up, which in the long run might be bad for your game

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The point of this post isn't obvious, I was hoping people wouldn't catch on so fast to what was happening! The point of this thread was simple, it was to highlight two main points:
1)The placebo effect in PUA is MASSIVE! Simply put, if some "mPUA" says that you will do better doing X thing or wear Y clothing - you will THINK that it will make you better and therefore you will be more confident etc etc.
2) People will sell you crap - yes, even the best of the best! Its marketing, clever wording or often very simple things everyone knows. Everyone in the industry is there to make money and to get that money they need to have the "best" product. As I am sure many of you know, the "best" product isn't always the one that out preforms the rest, but sometimes the one that out hypes the rest! Because of this, you have to TRY everything they say and not expect to be able to read out a few lines and get laid. Remember, unlike a scientific journal mPUA's cant get controlled experiments running on a large scale to prove their "New secret tip" actually has the effect THEY want you to believe it to have! Because of this, a lot of what they say is (just like my data) completely made up off the top of their head because nobody can really check it and repeat it perfectly themselves!
3) A side note from number 2 - the best aren't always right. If I had posted this thread on a new account with only 2-3 posts, do you think I would have got the same response or more questioning etc etc? Sure, there is generally correlation between quality of posts and number of posts by author - but STILL look at everyone's posts and think!
I apologise for misleading you - it needed to be done to highlight the problem rather than just tell you about it.
Madals