link | Submitted by DWPittelli on Tue, 09/11/2007 - 16:38.
Interesting study.
But doesn't such a study by its nature bias people toward accepting the middle range of bodies? Perhaps one should study people's reaction to a subset of the drawings, and see to what extent, if any, the preferred and socially acceptable lists are sifted toward the skew of the subset.
Also, photographs of real people, or manipulated images based on one photo of one real person, would be easier to correlate to real people and real BMIs/weights/fat %s than are line drawings.
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Interesting study.
But doesn't such a study by its nature bias people toward accepting the middle range of bodies? Perhaps one should study people's reaction to a subset of the drawings, and see to what extent, if any, the preferred and socially acceptable lists are sifted toward the skew of the subset.
Also, photographs of real people, or manipulated images based on one photo of one real person, would be easier to correlate to real people and real BMIs/weights/fat %s than are line drawings.