A recent paper in Psychological Science, a premier psychological journal, found that married women were significantly more likely to support Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, when they were in the fertile portion of their ovulatory cycle: of those women queried during their peak fertility period, 40.4% expressed support for Romney, while only 23.4% of the married women polled at infertile times were pulling the lever for Mitt.* The sample is small, just 228 women, but the difference is big, big enough that the result passes the p-value test with a score of .03. Which is just
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