January 22, 2008
THEY'RE MALTHUSIANS...:
Fat people are extroverts, research shows (Graham Tibbetts, 22/01/2008, Daily Telegraph)
The popular image of fat people as figures of fun and jollity, typified for centuries by favourites of fiction such as Falstaff and Billy Bunter, is based on fact, according to scientific research.A study of 30,000 people aged between 40 and 64 has found that extroverts tend to be overweight, while worriers are more likely to be thin.
...they're worried we'll eat them when the food supply fails. Posted by Orrin Judd at January 22, 2008 8:49 AM
“Factors associated with being overweight or obese are diverse, and our data indicate that personality trait is one of these factors...Extroversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism are associated with being overweight, and neuroticism is associated with being underweight.”
Hmmm.
Posted by: Ali Choudhury at January 22, 2008 3:00 PMCrassius has a lean and hungry look.
Posted by: Mikey at January 22, 2008 6:01 PMI suspect that this is correlative rather than causal. In the past, the rich were jolly and fat, because what did they have to worry about? Today, the poor are jolly and fat because what do they have to worry about?
Posted by: Ibid at January 22, 2008 8:47 PM