The study doesn't really prove anything. It creates a (poor) definition of "bad guys", creates a (very slanted) definition of "get the most girls", and then cor

The study doesn't really prove anything. It creates a (poor) definition of "bad guys", creates a (very slanted) definition of "get the most girls", and then correlates the two. Being confident in yourself could easily be confused with slight narcissistic, being impulsive could certainly be a good thing, and not all aspects of Machiavellianism are bad. It's not clear to me that their chosen traits actually define a "bad guy". In order to determine who got the most girls, all they did was ask the people in the study (all college students) "how many partners they had and whether they were seeking brief affairs." They point out that the "dark triads" had more partners and more desire for short-term relationships, but they don't even touch on the quality of the partners or the relationships. Their definition of getting a girl apparently includes one-night stands. Contrary to popular belief, there are girls who just want one-night stands as well, so the guys didn't "get" anything special; they engaged in an even trade. Getting a girl, in my opinion, is getting a girl to care about you. The study doesn't even touch on that. Also, as daniel-cussen said (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=224005 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=224005), because the study only focuses on college students, it gives far too much weight to trivial, shallow college relationships while not enough touching on the much-more-important relationships that come later in life.