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Link Found Between Low IQ and Big Belly

Mal12345

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This is interesting: "People who have a lower IQ may be less educated and have less of an understanding about how to eat healthy," she said.

This statement is based on a known study linking poor health with low IQ (and not with poverty or some other factor).
 

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Someone with a low IQ is not inherently going to be fat, but obviously someone less educated isn't as likely to know about good nutritional habits.That's pretty a pretty obvious assumption, if you ask me.

It's amazing the kinds of startlingly obvious things "studies" manage to find a "link" between.
 

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it is a little bit disturbing to me that IQ testing is mandated.
 

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Someone with a low IQ is not inherently going to be fat, but obviously someone less educated isn't as likely to know about good nutritional habits.That's pretty a pretty obvious assumption, if you ask me.

It's amazing the kinds of startlingly obvious things "studies" manage to find a "link" between.
thanks, I was just worried people were going to be like Sue is fat she must be a retard. When that doesn't mean that all it means is people with low IQ are more likely to be overweight. not that people who are overweight have low IQs. Look there's skinny retards and fat geniuses
 

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When that doesn't mean that all it means is people with low IQ are more likely to be overweight. not that people who are overweight have low IQs.
Tons of the world's most renowned intellectuals are overweight. Apparently, in all that time they spent thinking about stuff, they never thought it would be a good idea to go out for a jog every so often...
 

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Even those with the lowest IQs should be able to understand the prevailing "eat less exercise more" wisdom.
 

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People waste money on studies that mean nothing.

My school found a corrleation between happiness and success.
 

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Tons of the world's most renowned intellectuals are overweight. Apparently, in all that time they spent thinking about stuff, they never thought it would be a good idea to go out for a jog every so often...

That's for a different study. These links involve correlations. How do we know it's not a hormone imbalance causing the weight issue in both groups?
 

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Even those with the lowest IQs should be able to understand the prevailing "eat less exercise more" wisdom.

It's not so much a matter of understanding the wisdom behind it. It's a question of caring about the wisdom behind it. Who cares more about such issues, those with higher IQ or those with lowly IQ? There may be non-carers in both groups. Losing weight involves future expectation of reward with little reward in the short run. Which group tends to plan more for the future? Which group is better able to put off short term satisfactions in favor of long term satisfactions?
 

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It's not so much a matter of understanding the wisdom behind it. It's a question of caring about the wisdom behind it. Who cares more about such issues, those with higher IQ or those with lowly IQ? There may be non-carers in both groups. Losing weight involves future expectation of reward with little reward in the short run. Which group tends to plan more for the future? Which group is better able to put off short term satisfactions in favor of long term satisfactions?

That's a good point, so it's not the what or how to eat they need to know but the WHY.

Fatness is highly heritable, IQ is supposedly too, I wonder if that means something, potential for IQ and fatness being passed down the same lines I suppose.
 

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This doesn't explain the myriad of neckbearded, pot bellied, programmer geniuses living off of pizza and mountain dew in their basements.
 

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My stomach is beyond flat, it's actually concave, without sucking it in. 5'11 and 24 inch waist.

I still do a lot of stupid shit.
 

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Interesting. I had my IQ tested few years ago and it was quite bigger than when I had it tested (for entry college exam) this summer. I also put on weight since few years ago. :shrug::D
 

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Unless a direct and reliable connection can be drawn between low IQ and obesity, this study just seems like another case were correlation=/=causation.

it is a little bit disturbing to me that IQ testing is mandated.

True that.
 

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Look, I'm no fan of these types of idiotic wastes of the scientific method (and government funding), but you people do realize that saying "I know lots of smart fatties" or "I bet some fat people are smart" is kind of irrelevant, right? I mean, I'm pretty sure that's accounted for in the study already.

I know it's hard to find meaning in such meaningless BS studies, but if you're going to try, you should realize that you don't need it to be universal (i.e., "all fatties have lower IQs") in order to do so.
 

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you people do realize that saying "I know lots of smart fatties" or "I bet some fat people are smart" is kind of irrelevant, right?
Yes, most of us are fully aware that our own personal experiences are not the end all and be all of scientific research.

Most of us simply aren't taking this ridiculous "study" with any level of seriousness, and how universally ridiculous any sort of correlation between these two things is.
 
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