Womens Periods Synching

[Anonymous]

It's time for science to trump groupthink and blind acceptance of fallacies.

This excerpt details the errors in research concerning the original study that got this myth rolling. The very last sentence is all you probably need to read. You can also look at the "related articles" section on the right.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1287678

Another medical study of menses synchrony found there was no synchrony.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/6xwama2cy7wpl932

YET ANOTHER. The title of this one could not be any more unequivocal about the matter. It even says that 80% of women BELIEVE synchrony happens. That seems a little low, if this thread is any kind of sampling size, which it is not.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/6v72apa1y5955ya7

The hits just keep coming...

http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/extract/14/3/579?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=menstrual+synchrony&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT

There's more information out there about this if you care to look.

I think the only thing that synchs here is the belief there is synching.

[Anonymous]

That must be the gay friend posting that jibberish.

Our bodies, our choice, liberatchi.

[Anonymous]

You'll believe whatever you want to believe, true or not.

[Anonymous]

And my pediatrician says there is no proven correlation between fevers and teething, but in my experience, all three of my kids got fevers when teething. Don't discount the wisdom of women and mamas.

[Anonymous]

So is "The Red Tent" a bunch of hooey?

[Anonymous]

Anecdotal evidence > scientific study

[Anonymous]

It's true for me and the four women I work with 5 days a week. Within a week's time, we all have our period. Some are ending when others are just beginning, but there is always that overlap.