Study: Carry a guitar to get more phone numbers

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Researchers at the University of South Brittany in New Zealand have found that carrying a guitar can increase a man's chance of getting a woman's phone number by nearly a third.

One News reports that behavioral sciences Professor Nicolas Gueguen hired a 20-year-old actor to approach 300 women who appeared to be aged 18 to 22 in a shopping center.

For the first 100 women he held a sports bag, for the next 100 women he held a guitar case and to approach the final 100 women he carried nothing.

The sports bag was the least favorite among the women, with only 9 percent giving the actor their numbers. When he carried nothing, the actor got phone numbers from 14 percent of the women.

The guitar case, at a 31 percent success rate, was the runaway favorite of the New Zealand shoppers.