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#1776024 - 01/14/13 06:42 PM
Jurors Biased Against Obese Women?
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Jurors Biased Against Obese Women? snip - Male jurors are more likely to find obese women guilty than lean women, but they didn't show the same weight bias against their own gender, a Yale University study found.
Researchers showed 471 study participants a photo of one of four people - a lean woman, an obese woman, a lean man or an obese man - and asked them to determine whether that person was guilty of an imaginary check fraud crime on a scale of 1 to 5. Men were more likely to find the obese woman guilty than the lean woman, and the results were statistically significant.
"I think it's one more nail in the coffin of how painful it is for people that are of larger sizes," Lynn Grefe, president and CEO of the National Eating Disorders Association. "These people could be healthy. We're judging people. We're making stereotypes. We did this with race years ago. We did it with religion."
She added that while obese people are perceived as lazy or sloppy, people should remember that obese people don't choose to be large. They may have medical problems, different genes or a newly identified mental illness associated with binge eating.
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#1776030 - 01/14/13 06:55 PM
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I didn't even orignally post this for the comments, but they are classic! 
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#1776034 - 01/14/13 06:59 PM
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I don't know about jurors, but folding lawn chairs are.
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#1776039 - 01/14/13 07:03 PM
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I don't agree. Fat people aren't likely to commit crimes because they can't run.
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#1776044 - 01/14/13 07:07 PM
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Did anyone notice, paid for by the "National Coalitions to get Fat Ladies of Jail on an Legal Technicality"
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#1776045 - 01/14/13 07:07 PM
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#1776055 - 01/14/13 07:18 PM
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I guess it is more believable that they would get their hands caught in the cookie jar.
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#1776061 - 01/14/13 07:24 PM
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Cannot. Stop. Laughing. The comments are so ridiculously funny.
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#1776063 - 01/14/13 07:24 PM
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Just because every juror was wearing t-shirts saying No Fat Chicks Allowed.
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#1776064 - 01/14/13 07:26 PM
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Not really. Why just the other day I accidentally hit an obese women with my car. When I got out of my car and helped her up. She asked me why I hit her. I said. There wasn't enough room to go around her.
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#1776068 - 01/14/13 07:29 PM
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:kisssmack!: ♥
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#1776069 - 01/14/13 07:31 PM
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"One way to lose weight is jail food."
Althought that guy on death row figured out a way around this...
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#1776076 - 01/14/13 07:43 PM
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If the dress doesn't fit you must acquit
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#1776077 - 01/14/13 07:45 PM
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I don't agree. Fat people aren't likely to commit crimes because they can't run.
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