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The study was performed by researchers at Nottingham Trent University, and this article explains the experiment associated with it much better than popular science’s. University females aged 18-25 were showed images of men with varying body types wearing two different t-shirts: one with a T so that the top of the letter stretched across the chest, and one where the T was inverted and stretched across the belly. The hypothesis was that men with the upright T on their shirt would be perceived as being more in-shape, and therefore more attractive. The hypothesis was correct in this experiment; the women being questioned rated the men with an upright T on their shirt higher in attractiveness than those with the upside-down T.

Now, if you’ll notice, I didn’t talk about any sort of control in this experiment. In all of the articles I found about this particular study, nothing  about a control group was mentioned. To me, a control group would be simple for this experiment: men wearing a plain white t-shirt with nothing printed on it. There was no “neutral” group to compare the men with printed shirts to. It could very well be that wearing a “T” on your t-shirt looks downright stupid compared to someone wearing a normal, plain white shirt. The study claims that wearing an upright “T” helps, but that’s not a reasonable conclusion if there wasn’t a control group to compare the results to.

I mean, if you really want to try it, guys, feel free. I think it would look silly.