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Topic: Study: Male Jurors More Likely
To Find Overweight Women Guilty |
Study: Male Jurors More Likely
To Find Overweight Women Guilty
CBS Connecticut, by Staff
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Original Article
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Posted By:PageTurner, 1/15/2013 6:03:31 PM
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| New Haven, Conn. – Male members of a jury are more likely to find a defendant guilty if the accused person is an overweight female. According to a recent study by Yale University psychologists, male – and not female – jurors are also more inclined to believe that a fat woman is a repeat offender who had malicious intent. The researchers gathered a group of 471 pretend peers of varying body sizes and described to them a case of check fraud. They also presented them with one of four images—either a large man, a lean man, a large woman
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Comments:
The fat lady sang?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jethro bo, 1/15/2013 6:09:01 PM (No. 9118610)
Totally bogus junk science presented as legitimate research. This assumes that the jury after hearing the facts will vote based on sex and body size. So why have a trial if men don´t listen to evidence or any other facts presented? ASNd check fraud isn´t always pure and simple so facts and evidence do matter (except to men according to this study).
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
glcinpdx, 1/15/2013 6:13:30 PM (No. 9118615)
Man,talk about having too much time on your hands...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rafter, 1/15/2013 6:18:15 PM (No. 9118625)
Well... they are supposed to weigh the evidence carefully.
This may have something to do with oral arguments.
Guys have long memories for that.
This gives us something we can sink our teeth into.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JimS, 1/15/2013 6:22:02 PM (No. 9118634)
Leftists trying to undermine the justice system with bogus junk science studies
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
schnapps, 1/15/2013 6:23:01 PM (No. 9118637)
If Rosie O´Donnell was one of the fat women I can understand the bias.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
yuban, 1/15/2013 6:28:11 PM (No. 9118644)
What, guilty of over eating?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
FL_Absentee_Voter, 1/15/2013 6:48:21 PM (No. 9118688)
Article doesn´t say - who on earth sponsored this study? This is what´s coming out of Yale University these days?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Bur Oak, 1/15/2013 6:58:47 PM (No. 9118716)
#1 is right. Junk and not even close to science.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Udanja99, 1/15/2013 6:59:10 PM (No. 9118718)
Uh oh. Another victim group - obese female criminals.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rubinski, 1/15/2013 6:59:34 PM (No. 9118719)
Maybe they just don´t like sweatpants.
It could be the way the particular women were dressed.
As someone who does research, I´ll tell you: it´s always easier and more glamourous if you can sensationalize your results into something that CBS would pick up and carry on the nightly news.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
wilarrbie, 1/15/2013 7:14:59 PM (No. 9118745)
#2, It´s not too much TIME on their hands that is a concern, it´s too much taxpayer dollars that fund this malarky that bothers me.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 1/15/2013 7:15:23 PM (No. 9118746)
Are overweight women more likely to find male´s guilty?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
noddy, 1/15/2013 7:31:32 PM (No. 9118767)
No #13, because overweight women don´t use a penis to think with. I find studies like this of interest and while all may not be useful a good deal of them are. A friend sat on a ´´fake jury´´ sometime ago. The defense was trying to establish whether the plan they had set out would work with the average Joe, and Joan. I don´t remember all the details now, but she found it very interesting, and somewhat disturbing, when the information was shared with them at the end. Unfortunately there were generalisations that could not be ignored.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
strike3, 1/15/2013 7:33:59 PM (No. 9118769)
Well, they do cheat on their diets - every time they start one. If you´ll lie about that, you´ll lie about anything.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
tennman, 1/15/2013 7:50:34 PM (No. 9118793)
Finally a solution to that ole drinking issue. The one where the girls get prettier as the number of drinks increase.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
King of all trolls, 1/15/2013 7:56:36 PM (No. 9118805)
Not this juror. I like to keep warm at night.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MickTurn, 1/15/2013 9:10:13 PM (No. 9118883)
AND the BS MSM TV stations are always guilty, so what else is new?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
tipover, 1/15/2013 10:59:57 PM (No. 9119030)
Could it be that more overweight women are guilty? Just as black males are over-represented in the prison population?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 1/15/2013 11:53:36 PM (No. 9119097)
Gotta keep women folk looking like victims again... Where are the stats on what women jurors/judges do to the men????
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