[jkscm]

> Let me acknowledge the ways our experiment already fails to line up with the study. First, we were in a bar, not a lab. Second, we weren’t strangers. Not only that, but I see now that one neither suggests nor agrees to try an experiment designed to create romantic love if one isn’t open to this happening.

Her story is just an illustration to the research paper she linked to. Please stay away from commenting if you didn't read the article.

[selimthegrim]

I did read the article, and that disclaimer, which she was correct to include, is inimical to the linkbaity title. OTOH, I may just be used to dealing with avoidant personalities, because I can't say I've had nearly the same results this woman has had.

[tptacek]

Periodical writers do not as a general rule make up their own titles. Your comment painted the whole article as "sophistry". Don't move the goalposts.