I’ve been checking out the Basisnote Chemistry Check system running on Swissfriends.ch. Here are some screenshots I took of the testing process.
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Basisnote, GenePartner and ScientificMatch are only based on the T_shirt Experiment that only proved: normally cycling women (not pregnant and not taking contraceptive pills) are (temporarily) attracted by the perspiration scent of clothes used by men with a Major Histocompatibility Complex MHC more dissimilar to theirs, and not proved: women attracted by those men for long term mating with commitment.
It would be great if you could interview the brains behind Basisnote and tell them 2 Scientific Papers debunk their claims.
1) “Human oestrus” Gangestad & Thornhill (2008)
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/275/1638/991.full.pdf
“Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle”
2) “Does the contraceptive pill alter mate choice in humans?” Alvergne & Lummaa (2009)
http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2009/10/07/1254931423-tree_final_proofs.pdf
“.. whereas normally cycling women express a preference for MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex) dissimilarity in mates, pill users prefer odours of MHC-SIMILAR men, indicating that pill use might eliminate adaptive preferences for genetic dissimilarity.” ……………. “Recently, Roberts et al. attempted to eliminate these potential confounds by adopting a within-subject design in which women’s mate preferences were assessed before and after they began taking the pill. Women starting the pill showed a significant preference shift towards MHC SIMILARITY compared with three months before the pill was taken, a shift that was not observed in the control group of normally cycling women.”
Thanks!
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