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[frontovik]

Need further studies, but I've always suspected a correlation between obesity & lower levels of intelligence.

GabeN & Peter Jackson must be exceptions though.

 

[gaugebozo]

"Fat people are dumb," from N=32? You have to be fucking kidding.
Edit: after reading the abstract, they say no such thing. They simply offer plausibility arguments for previous studies.

 

[low-G]

Yeah it's just the article that is inflammatory.

The study itself is indeed poorly performed, with its 32 non-random entries...

I can totally believe that there is a certain type of behavioral intelligence which either lends to obesity or is affected by obesity.

I used to be extremely obese and had/have a > genius IQ, very high GPA, etc... So, for any fuckwits trying to make that association, fuck off and die(?)

 

[Goron2000]

This is really messed up and shouldn't be spread around. Making these links with such a tiny sample size is so dangerous. I'm obese, I have serious problems with self control but I'm not dumb and at work I sit next to a woman who is also obese and she's incredibly intelligent.

 

[ModBot]

Garbage study, garbage reporting, garbage thread.