Re:Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you
by nv-vn on Saturday September 30, 2017 @02:09PM
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I don't think the first link really provides any real insight into the problem. First of all, the study isn't experimental. There could easily be many confounding variables here, such as depression causing more body satisfaction issues. Another issue could be that overweight people with low body satisfaction are less satisfied because they have been warned more about it (chicken-and-egg); for example, if a child had a binge eating disorder to begin with, their parents/doctors/friends would intervene more to try to stop them from gaining so much weight. The study also doesn't clearly define how the survey worked, and the study referenced for the survey didn't explain much either [1]. It doesn't seem like there's any measure of whether low body satisfaction means weight is too high/weight is too low (I think there's some nuance to this, for example someone desiring larger breasts may want to gain weight even if they see themselves as fat, and there's a big difference here based on culture). Finally, keep in mind the jump back to weight gain with "Very high body satisfaction". These are separated into 4 groups (apparently by quartile, although clearly every group is a different size just by looking at the chart), but this information could reveal a sharp spike as you get to the top 1% or something. Also, look at the difference in size between the 4 groups, the first is 4x larger than the last, which seems really strange.
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3140795/#R27
Re:Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you
by wpietri on Saturday September 30, 2017 @07:24PM
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Sorry, when you say it isn't experimental, are you proposing a study where we abuse people enough to give them an unhealthy body image and then see if they gain weight? That seems... well, unlikely to pass an IRB, for one.
So if you are really serious about reducing harm from obesity, promoting more realistic, healthier body images is a valuable step in that direction.
[1] e.g.: http://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X%2815%2900288-8/p...
[2] http://www.sirc.org/publik/mirror.html
[3] e.g.: the phenomenon of "shadow pies" http://memehuffer.typepad.com/meme_huffer/2008/06/who-ate-al...
[4] http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/health/fat-shaming-sick-study-...