Is it indicating being obese lowers intelligence or can lead to obesity?

FunkyTobias

Fiqahana wrote: »

I don't think so. I was the fattest kid in class, I was always in the top students' list, every single semester. I was in the dean's list. I succeeded amazingly with my A-level. Not to brag or whatsoever just stating the facts. So no, I beg to differ. It doesn't apply to everyone. Size doesn't determine intelligence

Please look two posts up at the post by @wackyfunster

If there is a connection, and this isn't just random statistical noise, I suspected that the causal arrow is pointing in the opposite direction that most people think it is.

I doubt it suggests that obese people are less likely to be intelligent. I find it more plausible that the less intelligent are more prone to obesity.

ponycyndi

wackyfunster wrote: »

ponycyndi wrote: »

I did my own study. My husband is "obese" according to their chart, and the smartest person I have ever known. I was "obese" also at the time i took an IQ test (an actual test, not an internet score) and scored 128.

That's really not how science works. The thing that many people don't seem to understand is that saying that the obese population are less intelligent than the fit population is not the same as saying that individual obese people are less intelligent than individual fit people, and is definitely not the same as saying that obese people cannot be intelligent.

Your argument is like saying "Muggsy Bogues was 5'3" and an NBA player, so height really has nothing to do with how good someone is at basketball."

edit: lysdexia

You missed MY point. The sample they used for their "study" is so small, it's laughable.

Madwife2009

My husband's take on this was "imagine what you could have achieved, had you been a normal weight" - he was talking about my First Class Honours degree (I was top student in my subject having achieved my degree under difficult circumstances and was subsequently offered every job that I applied once qualified - not bragging, just being truthful )

sunnybeaches105

ponycyndi wrote: »

wackyfunster wrote: »

ponycyndi wrote: »

I did my own study. My husband is "obese" according to their chart, and the smartest person I have ever known. I was "obese" also at the time i took an IQ test (an actual test, not an internet score) and scored 128.

That's really not how science works. The thing that many people don't seem to understand is that saying that the obese population are less intelligent than the fit population is not the same as saying that individual obese people are less intelligent than individual fit people, and is definitely not the same as saying that obese people cannot be intelligent.

Your argument is like saying "Muggsy Bogues was 5'3" and an NBA player, so height really has nothing to do with how good someone is at basketball."

edit: lysdexia

You missed MY point. The sample they used for their "study" is so small, it's laughable.

It's not the size of the study that matters . . . okay, well maybe, to a point. You can't churn a butter study with a toothpick. Or something like that.

markrgeary1

My career was in IT. Unfortunately the workforce has many obese programmer types, pretty smart people. Many held Masters some Doctors, still overweight.

Think there's more research needed.