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Referring to the female nurses vs female doctors, they seem to have a very different "look" to them. Even when you are comparing female medical students to female nursing students. I think I would be able to tell them apart, usually, even if they were wearing similar clothes. Anyone else have a similar observation?

Just a random "Friday afternoon with nothing to do" kind of thread.
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Yeah nursing students just look stupid when you look at them. They just have that stupid appearance like they're not intelligent. To be fair, though, there are way more hot nursing students than med students.

However, with the hot med students, they don't have that dumb look to them. They're hot and also look intelligent. I think it has to do with the way they speak, word choice, their interests, and conversation topics. Just the way they carry themselves.

A cute med student is definitely way better than a hot nursing student. An ugly med student is worse than a hot nursing student, though. A hot med student...well obviously they're the best. I can really only say there are maybe 2 hot girls in my med student class, though. There are a few more cute ones but yea.
 
monkeyMD said:
Referring to the female nurses vs female doctors, they seem to have a very different "look" to them. Even when you are comparing female medical students to female nursing students. I think I would be able to tell them apart, usually, even if they were wearing similar clothes. Anyone else have a similar observation?

Just a random "Friday afternoon with nothing to do" kind of thread.
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I think if you randomized and double blinded the situation and collected data it would be a different story.

What I can vouch of is if I see some scrubs with a silly pattern on them I'm guessing I'm looking at a nurse. Most likely a pedi nurse. I'm not sure if I buy the idea that a stupidly hot female is more likely a nurse but it's a subset of your original idea that I would be curious about but still doubt the validity of. There's plenty of hot female docs.
 
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rocketbooster said:
Yeah nursing students just look stupid when you look at them. They just have that stupid appearance like they're not intelligent. To be fair, though, there are way more hot nursing students than med students.

However, with the hot med students, they don't have that dumb look to them. They're hot and also look intelligent. I think it has to do with the way they speak, word choice, their interests, and conversation topics. Just the way they carry themselves.

A cute med student is definitely way better than a hot nursing student. An ugly med student is worse than a hot nursing student, though. A hot med student...well obviously they're the best. I can really only say there are maybe 2 hot girls in my med student class, though. There are a few more cute ones but yea.
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I'm taking this as sarcasm. Otherwise holy **** did that just come out of your mouth.
 
rocketbooster said:
Yeah nursing students just look stupid when you look at them. They just have that stupid appearance like they're not intelligent. To be fair, though, there are way more hot nursing students than med students.

However, with the hot med students, they don't have that dumb look to them. They're hot and also look intelligent. I think it has to do with the way they speak, word choice, their interests, and conversation topics. Just the way they carry themselves.

A cute med student is definitely way better than a hot nursing student. An ugly med student is worse than a hot nursing student, though. A hot med student...well obviously they're the best. I can really only say there are maybe 2 hot girls in my med student class, though. There are a few more cute ones but yea.
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Why do nursing students look stupid? lol
 
Nasrudin said:
I'm taking this as sarcasm. Otherwise holy **** did that just come out of your mouth.
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No actually it's pretty accurate lol. Those are just the most superficial generalizations as possible, though. Obviously tons of exceptions, but as a rule of thumb, yes it's accurate.

JaneMarie23 said:
Why do nursing students look stupid? lol
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I think it's just the way they speak, act, and carry themselves. It becomes a lot more apparent after 3rd year when you realize you're only a med student but know a million times more than a nurse who has been working for 10+ years. It's pretty sad. I think part of it is just knowing how uneducated they are so you automatically think they're stupid in the back of your head. Would I hook up with nurses? Definitely, but I wouldn't marry one because I would just feel the marriage would be too unbalanced. I personally feel you and your spouse need to be on the same intellectual level in order to have a good marriage. I don't think only doctors are smart, but I do think most nurses are stupid either naturally or because they limited themselves in their education. The higher up you can go in education, the more you realize education level unfortunately does matter. I think doctor and most types of grad school are very compatible intellectually, with the exception of maybe something like a masters in social work.
 
monkeyMD said:
Referring to the female nurses vs female doctors, they seem to have a very different "look" to them. Even when you are comparing female medical students to female nursing students. I think I would be able to tell them apart, usually, even if they were wearing similar clothes. Anyone else have a similar observation?

Just a random "Friday afternoon with nothing to do" kind of thread.
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You mean like a huge sign over their forehead saying "Nurse. Approach at your own risk!"?
Never noticed anything like that. 😀

Seriously, I don't understand how on Earth can you judge whether someone is a nurse/nursing student or a doctor/medical student. I have talked to both smart and dumb nursing students; both good and bad looking ones. Same with medical students. You don't really need to be a genius to get into medical school - just quite hard working.

Ok... there is one exception. If you see someone going out every friday and saturday evening all April/May/June (depending on the schedule) - it's probably not a medical student. 😉
 
rocketbooster said:
Yeah nursing students just look stupid when you look at them. They just have that stupid appearance like they're not intelligent. To be fair, though, there are way more hot nursing students than med students.

However, with the hot med students, they don't have that dumb look to them. They're hot and also look intelligent. I think it has to do with the way they speak, word choice, their interests, and conversation topics. Just the way they carry themselves.

A cute med student is definitely way better than a hot nursing student. An ugly med student is worse than a hot nursing student, though. A hot med student...well obviously they're the best. I can really only say there are maybe 2 hot girls in my med student class, though. There are a few more cute ones but yea.
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Though women who are hot and intelligent can tend to have unrealistic standards, as in.. a guy who's as hot and intelligent doesn't quite "make the cut" for them.

But yea definitely agree with this post lol.
 
rocketbooster said:
No actually it's pretty accurate lol. Those are just the most superficial generalizations as possible, though. Obviously tons of exceptions, but as a rule of thumb, yes it's accurate.



I think it's just the way they speak, act, and carry themselves. It becomes a lot more apparent after 3rd year when you realize you're only a med student but know a million times more than a nurse who has been working for 10+ years. It's pretty sad. I think part of it is just knowing how uneducated they are so you automatically think they're stupid in the back of your head. Would I hook up with nurses? Definitely, but I wouldn't marry one because I would just feel the marriage would be too unbalanced. I personally feel you and your spouse need to be on the same intellectual level in order to have a good marriage. I don't think only doctors are smart, but I do think most nurses are stupid either naturally or because they limited themselves in their education. The higher up you can go in education, the more you realize education level unfortunately does matter. I think doctor and most types of grad school are very compatible intellectually, with the exception of maybe something like a masters in social work.
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Haha :laugh:
 
rocketbooster said:
No actually it's pretty accurate lol. Those are just the most superficial generalizations as possible, though. Obviously tons of exceptions, but as a rule of thumb, yes it's accurate.



I think it's just the way they speak, act, and carry themselves. It becomes a lot more apparent after 3rd year when you realize you're only a med student but know a million times more than a nurse who has been working for 10+ years. It's pretty sad. I think part of it is just knowing how uneducated they are so you automatically think they're stupid in the back of your head. Would I hook up with nurses? Definitely, but I wouldn't marry one because I would just feel the marriage would be too unbalanced. I personally feel you and your spouse need to be on the same intellectual level in order to have a good marriage. I don't think only doctors are smart, but I do think most nurses are stupid either naturally or because they limited themselves in their education. The higher up you can go in education, the more you realize education level unfortunately does matter. I think doctor and most types of grad school are very compatible intellectually, with the exception of maybe something like a masters in social work.
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The huge question is, is the nurse THAT unbalanced from you? 😛

Jk Jk, but you and I can both agree that there are lots of med students who think they are smart and highly intellectual when that is 100% further from the truth! Which is fine, since people in the medical profession are mere mortals haha
 
rocketbooster said:
No actually it's pretty accurate lol. Those are just the most superficial generalizations as possible, though. Obviously tons of exceptions, but as a rule of thumb, yes it's accurate.



I think it's just the way they speak, act, and carry themselves. It becomes a lot more apparent after 3rd year when you realize you're only a MD student but know a million times more than a DO who has been working for 10+ years. It's pretty sad. I think part of it is just knowing how uneducated they are so you automatically think they're stupid in the back of your head. Would I hook up with DOs? Definitely, but I wouldn't marry one because I would just feel the marriage would be too unbalanced. I personally feel you and your spouse need to be on the same intellectual level in order to have a good marriage. I don't think only MD students are smart, but I do think most DOs are stupid either naturally or because they limited themselves in their education. The higher up you can go in education, the more you realize education level unfortunately does matter. I think MDs and most types of grad school are very compatible intellectually, with the exception of maybe something like a masters in social work.
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ftfy

Why stop with nurses?
 
rocketbooster said:
Yeah nursing students just look stupid when you look at them. They just have that stupid appearance like they're not intelligent. To be fair, though, there are way more hot nursing students than med students.

However, with the hot med students, they don't have that dumb look to them. They're hot and also look intelligent. I think it has to do with the way they speak, word choice, their interests, and conversation topics. Just the way they carry themselves.

A cute med student is definitely way better than a hot nursing student. An ugly med student is worse than a hot nursing student, though. A hot med student...well obviously they're the best. I can really only say there are maybe 2 hot girls in my med student class, though. There are a few more cute ones but yea.
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Turn 'em upside down and they all look the same! Amirite?
 
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Nasrudin said:
What I can vouch of is if I see some scrubs with a silly pattern on them I'm guessing I'm looking at a nurse. Most likely a pedi nurse. I'm not sure if I buy the idea that a stupidly hot female is more likely a nurse but it's a subset of your original idea that I would be curious about but still doubt the validity of. There's plenty of hot female docs.
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One of my classmates suggested I get a bunch of cute looking scrub sets, because I was going into peds. I promptly told him that if I did that, no one would think that I was actually a physician.
 
Nurses look stupid. I don't know if I'm smelling it or seeing it. But they definitely give off that "stupid" scent or look
 
Nasrudin said:
I think if you randomized and double blinded the situation and collected data it would be a different story.

What I can vouch of is if I see some scrubs with a silly pattern on them I'm guessing I'm looking at a nurse. Most likely a pedi nurse. I'm not sure if I buy the idea that a stupidly hot female is more likely a nurse but it's a subset of your original idea that I would be curious about but still doubt the validity of. There's plenty of hot female docs.
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Don't have much experience with female nurses or female physicians. But I know a few nursing students. And I know a few female med students. The nursing students are waaaay hotter. I don't think there's a contest.
 
rocketbooster said:
Yeah nursing students just look stupid when you look at them. They just have that stupid appearance like they're not intelligent. To be fair, though, there are way more hot nursing students than med students.

However, with the hot med students, they don't have that dumb look to them. They're hot and also look intelligent. I think it has to do with the way they speak, word choice, their interests, and conversation topics. Just the way they carry themselves.

A cute med student is definitely way better than a hot nursing student. An ugly med student is worse than a hot nursing student, though. A hot med student...well obviously they're the best. I can really only say there are maybe 2 hot girls in my med student class, though. There are a few more cute ones but yea.
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I am not a nurse, nor am I a nursing student, but this still comes off quite brash to me. I don't think I've ever seen anything this offensive and quite frankly, unprofessional, in the entirety of my experience on SDN. Nursing students definately get more clinical experience in the early stages of their education (compared to say an M1/M2, depending what school you are) and I guarantee you that what you are describing, is how you look to residents and attendings during clerkships. Most of the nursing students I know appear more calculating and confident than what you describe, and conversely, a shocking number of medical students I know (even late 2nd year students) carry themselves much in a way you are describing nursing students.

Do you know why we have phototherapy for jaundiced newborns? A physician that was smart enough to consider what the nursing staff in his unit had noticed about the recovery of newborns placed near the windows of the nursery vs. away from the sunlight. Now our babies are fleshy and pink like they are supposed to be!

Please, as you move upward and onward in your medical career, do not look down upon your coworkers simply on the basis of their choosing a different professional path from yours.
 
rocketbooster said:
No actually it's pretty accurate lol. Those are just the most superficial generalizations as possible, though. Obviously tons of exceptions, but as a rule of thumb, yes it's accurate.



I think it's just the way they speak, act, and carry themselves. It becomes a lot more apparent after 3rd year when you realize you're only a med student but know a million times more than a nurse who has been working for 10+ years. It's pretty sad. I think part of it is just knowing how uneducated they are so you automatically think they're stupid in the back of your head. Would I hook up with nurses? Definitely, but I wouldn't marry one because I would just feel the marriage would be too unbalanced. I personally feel you and your spouse need to be on the same intellectual level in order to have a good marriage. I don't think only doctors are smart, but I do think most nurses are stupid either naturally or because they limited themselves in their education. The higher up you can go in education, the more you realize education level unfortunately does matter. I think doctor and most types of grad school are very compatible intellectually, with the exception of maybe something like a masters in social work.
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:laugh: Well trolled.
 
I have no idea why you had to say female. Have ya seen the male nurses? Haven't you seen that guy who TEACHES nursing videos on youtube? Have you seen a ditzier specimen in your life?

Hold a sec...let me get that for you.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snpVvWfLL1A[/YOUTUBE]
 
Everyone knows Male nursing students are either Gay or couldn't get into med school.

PS: Why were you looking at nursing teaching videos?
 
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tantacles said:
Addendum: Everyone knows gay medical students can definitely lift more than you, bro.
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Ooh. Touched a nerve.

*Posture* *Do you even lift bro?* *Pic at gym while flexing 'unintentionally'* *Posture*

I've never understood weightlifting as in lifting progressively heavier weights for bragging rights. Strength/stamina conditioning I can get behind.

I guess you got beat up alot. You might be able to lift more than me, but I'd have you on the mat tapping out in 5 seconds flat.
 
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Brain Bucket said:
Everyone knows Male nursing students are either Gay or couldn't get into med school.

PS: Why were you looking at nursing teaching videos?
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Two things:
1. Gay or not, you ignored that they're as ditzy as female nurses. focus!

2. Early in M1 I was looking for EKG or heart block videos and this guy popped up. He's unforgettable.
 
Less about how they look more about location/proximity to others recognizable figures.

If you follow a resident around all day people will assume you are a med student.

If you follow a nurse around all day people will assume you are a nursing student.


There are a ton of other subtle clues (including clothing) which give it away.....not really looks.
 
Anastomoses said:
Two things:
1. Gay or not, you ignored that they're as ditzy as female nurses. focus!

2. Early in M1 I was looking for EKG or heart block videos and this guy popped up. He's unforgettable.
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I get a bit ditzy when I look at nursing students (some of the male ones are quite pretty too). It's hard to focus.

No self respecting medicals student should stoop to nursing videos. Only Dale Dubin for you!

tantacles said:
Saw the edit, pretending you understood the irony initially because I'm a GGG.
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Aaaaand you've lost me. I don't think you're gay anymore if that helps. I've never known a gay person to write anything quite that ... special.
 
Brain Bucket said:
I get a bit ditzy when I look at nursing students (some of the male ones are quite pretty too). It's hard to focus.

No self respecting medicals student should stoop to nursing videos. Only Dale Dubin for you!



Aaaaand you've lost me. I don't think you're gay anymore if that helps. I've never known a gay person to write anything quite that ... special.
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Bro, do you even reddit?
 
tantacles said:
Bro, do you even reddit?
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nope.

edit: still don't see the irony. spell it out? I'm known to miss things while looking at nurses. Unless you're confusing irony with something else?
 
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rocketbooster said:
No actually it's pretty accurate lol. Those are just the most superficial generalizations as possible, though. Obviously tons of exceptions, but as a rule of thumb, yes it's accurate.
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A rule of thumb is usually not an opinion and an opinion is usually not "accurate."
 
Elisabeth Kate said:
A rule of thumb is usually not an opinion and an opinion is usually not "accurate."
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+1. Also, if there are so many exceptions to your proposed "rule", then it kind of negates the entire notion of "rule", doesn't it.
 
KnuxNole said:
The huge question is, is the nurse THAT unbalanced from you? 😛
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Excellent question and my answer would be "no." One thing rocketbooster has on everyone though, is arrogance. He'll be the guy the nurses page every 10 minutes during overnight call because his patient wants a sip of water.
 
Elisabeth Kate said:
Excellent question and my answer would be "no." One thing rocketbooster has on everyone though, is arrogance. He'll be the guy the nurses page every 10 minutes during overnight call because his patient wants a sip of water.
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Hell, I'll page him every ten minutes to go to room ### for a manual disimpaction....while the love of my life and I enjoy lagavulin and porterhouse at Gibsons. 😀
 
Brain Bucket said:
Everyone knows Male nursing students are either Gay or couldn't get into med school.

PS: Why were you looking at nursing teaching videos?
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I went to nursing school because I didn't get into med school and it's guaranteed job security. Only a nurse for 9 more months.
 
Anastomoses said:
I have no idea why you had to say female. Have ya seen the male nurses? Haven't you seen that guy who TEACHES nursing videos on youtube? Have you seen a ditzier specimen in your life?

Hold a sec...let me get that for you.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snpVvWfLL1A[/YOUTUBE]
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You owe me 11 minutes and 40 seconds of my life back.
 
False.

In the ED setting (where patients probably don't already know the staff, removing previous knowledge from the equation), female physicians get mistaken for nurses all the damn time. Just ask a female ED attending how many times she's gotten the "but the doctor never saw me" crap after going into the room six times. We're in this culture so we pick up on subtler clues, but they don't. I'd agree that female physicians seem to have more of an 'edge' to them that makes them easy to spot...

Also, the idea that nurses look 'stupid' is, ironically, stupid in itself. There are certainly dumb nurses out there (usually the ones that try to tell you how to do your job), but there are way more smart ones who are way better at what they do than you ever will be. They learn different things than we do, but they learn those things well. The majority of them are not med school wannabes, and chose a path that is parallel to ours. It's true that we rank higher in the hierarchy than they do, but that does not make us better or smarter or more valuable than them- just different.
 
JediZero said:
False.

In the ED setting (where patients probably don't already know the staff, removing previous knowledge from the equation), female physicians get mistaken for nurses all the damn time. Just ask a female ED attending how many times she's gotten the "but the doctor never saw me" crap after going into the room six times. We're in this culture so we pick up on subtler clues, but they don't. I'd agree that female physicians seem to have more of an 'edge' to them that makes them easy to spot...

Also, the idea that nurses look 'stupid' is, ironically, stupid in itself. There are certainly dumb nurses out there (usually the ones that try to tell you how to do your job), but there are way more smart ones who are way better at what they do than you ever will be. They learn different things than we do, but they learn those things well. The majority of them are not med school wannabes, and chose a path that is parallel to ours. It's true that we rank higher in the hierarchy than they do, but that does not make us better or smarter or more valuable than them- just different.
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Truth, but it does not disprove female nursing students are hotter than female med students.

Nursing students tend to be younger, they tend to have more free time, they tend to be less domineering, their class make-up tends to be larger percentage of females - thus better odds of physical attractiveness, they are also not my classmates that I see 24/7, and most of all they tend to be less crazy around my exam time.

As for intelligence, normal or slightly above normal is just fine. My intelligence is more than enough to carry over into the offspring. Let her be exceptionally above normal in other areas. 🙂
 
Porfirio said:
Truth, but it does not disprove female nursing students are hotter than female med students.

Nursing students tend to be younger, they tend to have more free time, they tend to be less domineering, their class make-up tends to be larger percentage of females - thus better odds of physical attractiveness, they are also not my classmates that I see 24/7, and most of all they tend to be less crazy around my exam time.

As for intelligence, normal or slightly above normal is just fine. My intelligence is more than enough to carry over into the offspring. Let her be exceptionally above normal in other areas. 🙂
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What if your boys are swimming in circles though?
P.S. - is this biologically possible?
 
female doctors look like theyve been through hell in a POW camp in some third world country ... even the hot ones... you can still tell.
 
Oh my god... the comments about nurses looking stupid. I just... you guys are wrong and wrong about it on so many levels.


Nurses are just more normal, imo. Doctors look like a scientist whereas Nurses appear more like people you see everyday. Is that a bad thing? No. Can I spot a nurse? I guess so, but I'm not saying it's exactly easy.

And I'd say nurses appear more attractive in general. I think part of the reason is that they're able to converse way better than physicians at times. They can relate to patients/etc more so than doctors.


Anywho
 
Wow guys. Just...wow. I usually never comment in this thread, but either you guys are trolling or the reason that medical education is changing to make doctors more personable.

YankeeBean said:
I am not a nurse, nor am I a nursing student, but this still comes off quite brash to me. I don't think I've ever seen anything this offensive and quite frankly, unprofessional, in the entirety of my experience on SDN. Nursing students definately get more clinical experience in the early stages of their education (compared to say an M1/M2, depending what school you are) and I guarantee you that what you are describing, is how you look to residents and attendings during clerkships. Most of the nursing students I know appear more calculating and confident than what you describe, and conversely, a shocking number of medical students I know (even late 2nd year students) carry themselves much in a way you are describing nursing students.

Do you know why we have phototherapy for jaundiced newborns? A physician that was smart enough to consider what the nursing staff in his unit had noticed about the recovery of newborns placed near the windows of the nursery vs. away from the sunlight. Now our babies are fleshy and pink like they are supposed to be!

Please, as you move upward and onward in your medical career, do not look down upon your coworkers simply on the basis of their choosing a different professional path from yours.
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YankeeBean said:
What if your boys are swimming in circles though?
P.S. - is this biologically possible?
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The boys are just fine.

Biologically possible in reference to what? My boys swimming in circles or my intelligence carrying over into my children?
 
Porfirio said:
Truth, but it does not disprove female nursing students are hotter than female med students.

Nursing students tend to be younger, they tend to have more free time, they tend to be less domineering, their class make-up tends to be larger percentage of females - thus better odds of physical attractiveness, they are also not my classmates that I see 24/7, and most of all they tend to be less crazy around my exam time.

As for intelligence, normal or slightly above normal is just fine. My intelligence is more than enough to carry over into the offspring. Let her be exceptionally above normal in other areas. 🙂
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I guess? I was responding to the OP's question with that part, not the "RATE LOCAL HEALTHCARE SINGLES 1-10 AND WOULD YOU TAP THAT Y/N/M?" discussion that followed. As for my twin bits of copper currency, I'd say that there are certainly plenty of hot nurses because, as you point out, they're young. However, it seems to me that female physicians age more gracefully, so it evens out.

Funny: we had a medical geneticist that told our class that intelligence seems to be largely X-linked. She therefore recommended that if any of us guys wanted brilliant sons, we ought to look for a brilliant woman to marry. As for the girls, she recommended mate selection based on ability to lift heavy objects and fix toilets. :laugh:

YankeeBean said:
What if your boys are swimming in circles though?
P.S. - is this biologically possible?
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Only in the rarely-reported Circular Vas Deferens Syndrome.
 
Porfirio said:
Yes, deformed tails.
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I'm interested in the cell biology underlying this - as I understand it, microtubule mutations might lead to poorly constructed cilia/flagella, but I suppose my speculation on this stems from the fact that this usually leads to more cellular "tumble" movement patterns than a defined pattern of movement. I haven't heard of circular vas deferens syndrome (probably because it is rare) but I assume the sperm are normal but are following the circular path of the vas deferens with no impairment in their capacity for movement in a straight line....I'm wondering if it is biologically possible for a sperm to chase it's tail much in a way like my Labrador used to, haha.
 
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