Are skinny people typically smarter than fat people?

[her209]

Let's do an unscientific poll just to see...

 

[Schadenfroh]

Fatties can have generous portions of intellect.

 

[Saint Nick]

I would say yes. If you're fat, that could mean you are lazy.

If you are lazy, you are may not do well in school, or, do just the bare minimum to graduate or get an average grade. Therefore, your education is poor, and you are stupid.

I am trying not to over-generalize here, but, hopefully you can understand where I'm coming from.

 

[erikistired]

I would say yes. If you're fat, that could mean you are lazy.

If you are lazy, you are may not do well in school, or, do just the bare minimum to graduate or get an average grade. Therefore, your education is poor, and you are stupid.

 

[highland145]

I was drinking last Saturday and I was damn smart.

 

[Powermoloch]

where's the neither ?

 

[bignateyk]

If fat people were smart they wouldn't be fat, so no, fat people aren't smart.

edit: tbh, it's even a stretch to refer to them as people.

 

[schneiderguy]

I'm skinny and I'm a genius.

My physics professor weighs about 600-700 pounds (D and he's got a PhD so he's probably pretty smart. I'm not sure there's a correlation.

 

[roguerower]

TridenT is skinny and dumb, therefore skinny people aren't always smart.

The Nutty Professor was fat and smart, therefore fat people aren't always dumb.

 

[Homerboy]

TridenT is skinny and dumb, therefore skinny people aren't always smart.

The Nutty Professor was fat and smart, therefore fat people aren't always dumb.

Your theory is flawed though.
TridenT is a fictional character.

 

[brainhulk]

Excessive adipose tissue mounts a substantial glucose sink that otherwise would be used by the brain for cognitive functions

 

[vi edit]

See the obesity and education rankings in the south for a bit of an idea.

Of course there's the third prong of demographics known as poverty or near poverty that plays a huge factor in that.

 

[RKS]

I'm smrt but I am a few pounds overweight.

 

[vshah]

lol, two of you consider yourselves fat and stupid?

 

[joesmoke]

i dunno... but this XXL chalupa is stupid delicious

 

[Saint Nick]

Obesity vs. education
http://www.datamasher.org/mash-ups/obesity-vs-education-expenditure

Does this make sense to anyone? I don't understand how this guy made this, and, why he is dividing a dollar amount by percentage of the population that is obese.

 

[SandEagle]

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080331200430AA6A1oK

http://www.nature.com/oby/journal/v11/n10/full/oby2003170a.html

 

[surfsatwerk]

I'm large and in charge, and I'm awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYws8biwOYc

 

[thraashman]

I think this poll is more likely to answer one question. Are people on Anandtech more willing to admit to being fat or more willing to admit to being stupid. My education, career, and IQ tests lead me to consider myself smart. My 255 lbs of weight force me to admit I'm getting a bit fat.

 

[JulesMaximus]

What about fat people who used to be skinny? Do you get dumberer as the weight goes on? If you lose the weight do you get smarterer?

 

[her209]

What about fat people who used to be skinny? Do you get dumberer as the weight goes on? If you lose the weight do you get smarterer?

I would say yes you get dumber as you gain weight.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Obesity vs. education
http://www.datamasher.org/mash-ups/obesity-vs-education-expenditure

Man, talk about a spam bot attack, look at the comments...

 

[TecHNooB]

when i was in grade school, i had a bad habit of leaving things at school such as my coat, textbooks, homework, stuff I needed at home. My brain sucks

 

[slayer202]

while being fat doesn't mean you are stupid, just like being not-fat doesn't make you smart, I'd say the average intelligence of fat people, overall, is lower.

My theory is that fat people fall into a certain number of categories.

A) Stupid
B) Small penis
C) Poor(usually combined with one of the above, directly related)

D) Other

 

[lyssword]

Hah, what a dumb poll. If you ask people if they are better than average at something, 95% will say they are better than average I forgot what kind of bias it's called..