Maybe you really do want to be that guy who breaks out his guitar to impress the ladies. That is, if you believe a new study from France鈥檚 Universite de Bretagne-Sud, which found that .
Researchers tested this with a 20-year-old actor who was 鈥減reviously evaluated as having a high level of physical attractiveness.鈥� They set him loose in a French shopping district on a Saturday afternoon to . For a third of those instances, he held a guitar case; for another third, a sports bag; and for another third, he approached the women empty-handed.
More than twice the number of women gave him their number when he was holding the guitar case than when he was carrying nothing, and only nine gave him their number when he was carrying a sports bag. Researchers concluded that 鈥渕usical practice is associated with sexual selection.鈥� Now the question is, what is the actor going to do with the 54 numbers he got?