Science paid people to sniff trumps to find if men's or women's were smellier

Result of an experiment in which 16 healthy adults wore a 'flatus collection system'

Science once forced judges to smell other people's trumps to find out the answer to whose smelled the worst - men's or women's

On average, humans fart up to 23 times a day, but not all farts are created equal, reports the New York Post.

This is the result of an experiment in which 16 healthy adults wore a ‘flatus collection system’ that measured their gas production after they consumed pinto beans and laxatives.

The gas was then analysed using a chromatographic mass spectrometer, as well as being subjected to an old-fashioned sniff test. Judges, who didn’t know what they were whiffing, rated farts on a scale of 0 to 8, with 8 being ‘very offensive’.

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