Study: Male Jurors More Likely To Find Overweight Women Guilty

CBS Local ^ | January 12, 2013

[rightwingintelligentsia]

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, or a lean woman—and identified the person in the photograph as the defendant.

Participants rated the pretend-defendant’s guilt on a five-point scale. No fat bias was present when the female pretend peers evaluated the fake female defendants or when either men or women assessed the guilt of the men.

But when the male pretend peers pronounced judgment on the fake female defendants – physical bias weighed in on their decision.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Guilty, guilty, guilty and free as a bird. Five men and seven women found her not guilty.

[dfwgator]

[UnwashedPeasant]

Also in the study: transvestite wookies are guilty.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

And women vote for men like Clinton and Obama because of perceived charm etc. Equally wrong and unjust.

[mrs. a]

Honestly - who wears elbow gloves to a trial? She’s guilty as h*ll.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The writers from Married....With Children are only wishing this study would have come out 20 years ago.

[WVKayaker]

Not-so-scientific FR Poll:

1.

Guilty

Not Guilty

2.

3.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Robert Bork, who served as a tank commander in Korea during the Korean War (and was grilled by certain Senate Democrats for taking a leave from law school to do so) said that if he were innocent he would prefer a court-martial, if he were guilty, he would prefer a civilian jury.

I believe that women jurors are far more prone to acquit, in general, than men.

And what about the Menendez brothers batting their eyelashs at female jurors?

Gimme a break!

[napscoordinator]

This is total crap. Of course, if I am shown pictures out side a court room, I might say that a fattie is guilty of the crime...However, in a courtroom as a juror, I would take the situation VERY seriously and help pass a truthful verdict that has only evidence as my guidance. This is the most crappy article and study on Earth.

[Dr. Ursus]

Defense attorney- what is your name, Laz,NEXT!

[Opinionated Blowhard]

So ladies, if you plan on killing your husbands, make sure you go on a diet first.

[baddog 219]

I did not!

[BBell]

When I read this article I thought of two things; Debra Lafave and the Menendez brothers. I well remember Rush saying that women should not be allowed on the juries where the defendants are good looking young men.

I still don't know how anyone could find Debra Lafave guilty(sarcasm alert)

[Hoodat]

Male Jurors More Likely To Find Overweight Women Guilty

That is true of FReepers as well.

[Hoodat]

#3 is so guilty that even OJ knows she’s guilty.

[Vigilanteman]

I call it the "reverse scientific method":

1. Draw your conclusions.
   
2. Find data which supports them.
   
3. Discard any which does not.
   
4. Present your findings to make it sound sophisticated and reality based.

Follow this formula carefully and in order and you, too, can be a published scholar. But only if your conclusions are supported by the know-it-all crowd in media and academia.

[Baynative]

[BuddhistConservative]

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[bgill]

Exactly like a lot of male FReepers. Since it’s not PC to make cracks about ethnicity, race, religion or hair color, weight is now the last area for nasty comments and off colored jokes. These so called men should take a look in the mirror.

[Enterprise]