Posted on 10/06/2014 5:46:17 PM PDT by grundle
The federal government is spending nearly a half a million dollars to find out why obese teenage girls have a hard time getting dates.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $466,642 grant last week for the study, which will examine whether social skills have an impact on why obese girls have fewer dating experiences than their less obese counterparts.
“Mounting evidence demonstrates that weight influences intimate (i.e., dating and sexual) relationship formation and sexual negotiations among adolescent girls,” the grant’s abstract states. “Obese girls consistently report having fewer dating and sexual experiences, but more sexual risk behaviors (i.e., condom nonuse) once they are sexually active.”
“The conceptual framework that has guided this research presumes that differences in the social skills for relating to peers and intimate partners along with differences in the relationship experiences of obese and non-obese girls account for these differences,” it said.
“However, no studies have actually examined whether the interpersonal skills and intimate relationships of obese and non-obese girls differ.”
Professors at the Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation in Pittsburgh will try to answer this question over the next four years. The end date for the project is listed as May 2018.
OK get ready to write me a check. Its because they are obese. :-)
ARE YOU SERIOUS?????????????
Several things come to mind...NONE of which I can openly say.
Give me a half million and I’ll just date some of these girls.
Tell em to hang around at closing time. They’ll get a date.
TTIUWOP...
Yep,not gonna say it.Wouldn’t be prudent.
You could’ve given me $10,000 and I’d have given you an honest answer in less than 30 seconds. Instead the PC research whores have to spend way more time and money to get the wrong, though “sensitive,” answer.
I know why. They are busy eating. Give me my money!!
Why? Because, as the abstract states, it hasn’t been studied before, and apparently that is enough.
Ok. Fine. Please give me 500,000 to study whether or not I am better off with 500,000. It may sound obvious, but it passes the fat - girl study litmus test for suitable studies.
Wouldn’t be prudent.
Ping.
I am waiting for the announcement of the 5 year, $22,000,000 study on Turtle Doves...Are they more turtle or more dove...More soup or more soap...Avian reptiles or...
Is this a future hate crime??
I am sure that fat gurls everywhere can’t wait for that to happen...
You were harsh...
I’ll do it for half that amount. Hint: Teenage boys don’t like fat girls.
All I can think about is Lena Dunham.
They just have a hard time getting dates with white guys. (Is that racist?)
pissing away fiat money after bad.
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