Study: Interacting with women makes men dumb

What it determined: Researchers at Radboud University of Nijmegen in The Netherlands, which is totally not a fake university, found that men tended to have difficulty performing cognitive tasks after socializing with a member of the opposite sex.

Why it's dumb: As obvious studies go, this one is up there with "people sometimes bend the truth online" and "chickens don't like it when you chop off their heads." Did time and money really need to be spent on determining that men get distracted when a woman bats her eyelashes in their general direction? And by the study's logic, wouldn't the male researchers also have had difficulty focusing while in the presence of their female subjects? Clearly this experiment backfired, a la Weird Science. Why should we believe the findings of scientists whose brains were addled by an army of sultry, possibly supernaturally-powered women?

[psychologytoday.com]