TS Good Dancing vs Bad Dancing

Write-in vote for "it doesn't matter how well you dance if you got no face or genitalia".

Given the imminent start of this year's Strictly Come Dancing, I should have added a Paul Daniels option.

'good dancing' is a little to close to http://i661.photobucket.com/albums/uu333/Jgerber/dancing-spiderman.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc9xq-TVyHI

The video on the BBC website has been updated with a bit of commentary from some scientist guy.

Some British universities may have to abandon research and become purely teaching institutions after imminent cuts in state funding for science to curb a record budget deficit, the business minister said on Wednesday.

Vince Cable, responsible for 6 billion pounds of annual science funding, said he planned to ration support so that public money went to only the highest quality research teams.

"The corollary of that is we screen out mediocrity regardless of where they are and what they do," he said at an event at in London.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBkjn-bA6a0

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/03/24/what-women-want-on-the-dance-floor-according-to-science/

Researchers at Northumbria University and the University of Gottingen wanted to know what women look for in a dancing partner, since "dancing ability, particularly that of men, may serve as a signal of mate quality." But isolating specific dance moves is difficult - facial attractiveness, body shape and even perceived socioeconomic status play a role in how people judge the dancing ability of their peers.

So the researchers set up an experiment as follows: they recruited 30 men to dance to a core drum beat for 30 seconds. The dancers were given no specific instructions on how to dance beforehand, and their movements were recorded via a sophisticated motion-capture system. Each dancer's 30-second routine was then used to animate a "featureless, gender-neutral" computer-generated avatar. Researchers asked 37 women to view each of the dancing avatars and rate their performance on a seven-point scale.

saw that. love this graphic

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2014/03/hipsdontlie.png