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Old 18th October 2019, 09:35 AM   #145
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Originally Posted by Distracted1 View Post
How much does that matter?
The idea is to determine what role fat shaming might have played in individuals who are not obese in a culture where becoming obese is easy to do.
I get the idea, and like I said, it's an interesting question. But I don't think you can get good enough data to test it. There are too many potentially confounding variables you can't control for with a purely observational study, and it's not ethical to do a controlled experiment.
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