MALE JURIORS 'FAR MORE LIKELY' TO CONVICT OBESE WOMEN AT TR

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'Twelve biased men': Male jurors ' far more likely' to convict obese women at trial than slender females charged with same crime
Researchers at the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University discovered the shocking bias in a recent survey of 471 mock jurors
Researchers gave jurors images of four people - two obese and two slender - and asked them to rate guilt
The thinner the man, the more likely they viewed an obese woman as guilty
Bias did not exist for female jurors, and did not apply to overweight, male defendants



By Mike Jaccarino

PUBLISHED:01:25 GMT, 12 January 2013| UPDATED: 01:35 GMT, 12 January 2013


Apparently it's not just the weight of the evidence against a defendant that matters at trial.


Male jurors are 'significantly more likely' to convict an obese woman than a slender one when both females are accused of the very same crime, according to a new study by Yale researchers.


In order to arrive at the findings, the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity team presented 471 mock jurors the details of a hypothetical case of check fraud, along with images of four fake defendants - two men and two women.

One photograph depicted a portly man; one a slender man; a third a svelte woman, and a fourth a larger female.


The mock jurors then rated the pretend defendants' guilt on a five-point scale, given their appearances.


And not only did male jurors generally rate the guilt of the fatter woman higher than that of the slender woman, the bias was greater if it was a thin man who was deciding their fate.



Male participants with trim waistlines were, the study found, more likely to label fat women 'repeat offenders' with 'awareness' of their crimes than the slender defendants.




“According to research ...the prevalence of weight-based stigmatization is now on par with rates of racial discrimination,” Natasha Schvey, lead author of the study, reportedly said. “The present study identifies yet another setting in which obese persons are vulnerable to bias and discrimination.”

Interestingly, the male jurors' bias did not apply to the hypothetical fat male check fraudster.



On that point, the study, which was published online in the International Journal of Obesity, discovered no concrete disparity between how guilty the jurors thought the portly man was versus his slender, male counterpart.

As for the women who participated, researchers also found no evidence the size of the person in question mattered when they made their decision about their guilt.


The study, a copy of which was obtained by The Mail, takes a stab at why the findings were so.

'Obese individuals are vulnerable to negative societal attitudes, stigma and prejudice in multiple domains,' the study read. 'Driving such discrimination and bias are stereotypes that depict overweight individuals as greedy, lazy, unmotivated and lacking in self discipline and will power.'


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