Why Bald is Better

we're seriously considering shaving our. heads after what we've discovered I'm. Jose from Houston Texas Good Mythical. [Music]. Morning Good Mythical Morning today's. episode is brought to you by the r link. Community where mythical beasts gather. and cross-pollinate over 25,000 of you. have joined the crowd over there keep it.

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that's also a word good news for balding. men and for people who are looking to. change their self-image in a positive. way study that I just read and I want to. share with you could have drastic impact. on the way that we. look what and what I was about to say. and the way that our lives the quality. of our lives here I was it's going to. cut you off and say you've been doing. research cuz I wanted to go yeah do it.

okay uh CBS News article talks about Dr. Albert mans who himself was was had a. receding hairline he decided to shave. his head Y and realize that he was. perceived you're clapping him yeah he. was perceived differently so he decided. to do some experiments because I guess. this is his field an experimenter yeah. self- experimentation he tested other. people's perception of men with shaved. heads and all three experiments that he.

conducted found similar results a man's. shorn scalp that means shaved head was. linked with dominance in other words men. with shaved heads were perceived as. powerful by others and I think we maybe. this is not news you know shaved heads. on people they kind of look tougher yep. tougher so but but they always need. experiments to to prove these things I. guess to the n ners no no no no but I.

may be a naysayer actually I think. there's actually one of those time. Wonder cable uh commercials where it. talks about the progression of things. that happens and you you shave your head. to sell it to somebody because you can't. pay your bill or something and then. you're perceived it's tougher than that. you get beaten up and left in a ditch so. that actually preceded this study the. first well the first study 59 college. students looked at 25 photos of men. enrolled in a business school program 10. of the men had shaved heads while the. rest wore their hair in various Styles.

and lengths ponytails Mohawks pigtails. the volunteers rated the photos of men. with shaved heads as more dominant they. looked more powerful influential and. authoritative and more. bald or more shaved maybe they weren't. necessarily bald but they decided to. shave their heads well then they became. bald when they shaved their heads well. let me let me see what we really think. of this I wanted to put this to the test. with some famous people so um feel free.

to write it in the comments or just. think in response to what I'm saying as. I'm asking you to think in response to. famous shaved people their heads not. like their armpits or their legs or like. swimmers or something like that I'm. still talking about heads and you tell. me if you think that they are more. dominant and tough than if they had hair. yeah this is a horrible science just. just side note well he's already done. the science what's the control group. here what do you mean the control group. I'm thinking about people what they.

would be like if they had hair that's my. control group no and I'm one person we. need like 25 people they've already done. the experiment I'm just seeing what you. think dude okay don't scrutinize my my. thing I barely know what control group. means okay Brian cranon now this this is. uh Walter from breaking badge Walter. White was not intimidating with hair and. then when he shaved his head he became. very intimidating I mean that and that's. an understatement so I think he's the. poster child for probably the whole.

study or men shaving their heads left. and right and U you know getting into. creating illegal substances okay in in. illegal it holds true for him definitely. Samuel L Jackson uh he's bald I I find. him more intimidating with hair you. think about like the wig when he was in. Pulp Fiction yeah like the Jer the Jerry. cow that's very intimidating to me I. think it was the gun and the Swagger I. almost think he's friendly with the. shade did well think about Ving RS from.

Pulp Fiction he was very intimidating. very authoritative Bruce. Willis definitely more intimidating bald. right we're not talking about. Moonlighting Moonlighting Bruce. Moonlighting Bru was not intimidating at. all that was a television show Almost. inviting in the 80s where he had hair. and Cil Shephard was in it Michael. Jordan you have to think about this the. most dominant force on the basketball. court perceived as dominant no he is.

intimidating I'm going to the control. group in my mind which is him with hair. I'm going back to the college days and. I'm thinking about yeah he's more. intimidating without hair definitely he. was he wasn't even good at basketball. when he played in college yeah that's. that's the rumor Michael Jordan didn't. even start playing basketball until he. was a junior in high school that's true. uhhuh it is true right he also had hair. then M so think about that uh one of the. most for some reason the first person. that come to comes to my mind when I. think about a bald person Hoy Mandell.

who we actually met last week we did in. his office we met Howe Mandell you may. have seen my tweet about the FIS bump. fist bumped with power so we we're able. to say firsthand whether in the room is. is he authoritative and dominant I I. would say he carries a certain Authority. but I would not say he also seems like a. nice guy he's a comedian he's not. intimidating he's he's just very. welcoming I don't know I he was a little. there was a little intimidation thing. going on in the room like the other guy. did most of the talking so there was in.

Silence with the baldness he was there. was an intimidation Factor there like oh. I'm going to dictate how you greet me. it's going to be with a fist bump you. know that kind of thing granted I. respect him for that Dr Evil or evil not. intimidated by him really find him funny. okay what about this Dr Phil Dr Phil. well I am scared of Dr Phil I have been. for quite some time I do not want to. meet that man on the street I would not. want to cross that man really oh no not. for a second he seems like a friendly. father no you think that you think that.

and finally uh Uncle Fester um scary not. intimidating but scary and standoffish. okay going back to the study here a. second experiment for the same guy 344. adults were shown photographs of four. different men here's the funny thing one. photo was of the man's real hair and a. second shot was of the same man but his. head was digitally altered to remove all. of its hair and here's what happened. adults adult men still rated the.

digitally shaved heads as more dominant. than the quaffed counterpart in effect. researchers say was largely due to. perceiving men with Shor scalps as. having more confidence in masculinity. well this is convenient that there are. such a thing as digitally Shor heads. because I took the liberty of going and. downloading an app in the app store so. this is your test right we took pictures. of ourselves and we didn't take time to. photoshop it we just used the app and. made ourselves bald.

so what you tell us Are we more. intimidating and masculine looking like. this and there you are link. um wow don't ever do this first of all I. I think what it's not shaved on the side. the yeah you look like Bozo the problem. with this technique and this app is it. just balds you on top I definitely think. that if you had to choose between full. head of hair or just bald on top you. have to go full bald in order to get the. intimidation effect cuz right now you.

just look like a loser somebody I would. not even I wouldn't get 10t from you. definely definitely wouldn't let my. children get 10 ft from you okay now. let's look at you it's it almost looks. like you have two horns yeah your hair. on the sides you it's kind of brushed. out now I think I might do this I think. at some point I actually may sport this. I think you were trying to give a facial. expression of intimidation but it just. looks like you're about to cry when your. head's like that so it's like a tear is. about to flow for me the lesson learned.

here looking at these pictures and. taking the study into account is that if. you're a man out there and you're losing. your hair and you know the inevitable. conclusion of this receding hairline is. a bald head go all you need to go all. the way it's some point and I say the. point is when you you are now doing. things with your hair to make the scalp. be covered you got to just embrace it. you I can't tell you how many people. I've known that started to experience. that and then when they went B you're. like oh wow this you're cool now right. assertive dominating in charge if you if.

you have the science proves it go for it. poorly shaped Noggin it doesn't even. matter well no it doesn't matter even if. you have a even if you have a big dent. from some weird accident you need to. just go for it because because even it's. like yeah I can I can show you my my. head looks looks weird but I'm still so. dominant that I'm going for it but you. could do like what Brett Michaels does. and just wear a wig and then put a band. around it and he puts the wig and the.

band on like one of those things you buy. at Party City and he just wears that all. the time everybody thinks that Brett. Michaels has this amazing hair ladies. he's completely bald under there really. yes it's just it's fake hair and a and a. bandan yeah who doesn't know this and. you're recommending that if you got a a. dent in your head I think you could do. the Brett Michaels. thing oh man like uh oh my goodness I. think the other application is if we. really need to go into a situation and. dominate we need to first if we've ever.

got like a really big idea like a really. big idea and we're like pitching some. movie studio on something like a million. dooll movie or something or several. million dollar movie we've got to go in. bald and you know that's it suits and. ties and completely shaved heads we'll. do it we're not above it we don't care. about our hair I think we've certainly. established that in previous episodes. yeah all right we're end this episode of. Good Mythical Morning I think we've. enriched people's lives and a few of you. are going over the Edge into the world.

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