NEWS: Being Obese Linked to Voting Republican

oh isadora, i love you.

We at the Fat Liberals of America are offended by this post.

*snicker*

hmm.... "Fuck the red states dot com"....

this sounds like a very fair, balanced, and neutral news source.

We at the American Fat Liberals are offended by your post. Wankers!

Looking at the scatter plot, I was about to ask about the r value...

The Obese Republicans are a best fit in a larger size.

Alright, time for bed.

An r^2 of .15 is a pretty fucking weak correlation.

Are you suggesting that their math is somehow tainted by political bias?

Let me start out by saying that I'm liberal, so don't be jumping on me for saying this, but this article is a bunch of BS.
First off, like Trucker_Ficton said, it's from Fuck the states dot com. Doesn't sound very fair and balanced to me.
Second off, the math doesn't suggest anything. Besides, if you consider the percentage of Americans that are obese, you'd probably get about the same thing with people who voted for Kerry.
I feel sorry for the people who blindly believe this bullshit. It's childish and extremely pathetic.
Makes us Liberals look like a bunch of idiots.

lol, people need to get their irony senses checked. unless i'm wrong, and this is meant to be completely serious, this is a big fucking joke.

I know nothing about plotting lines, but it looks to me like the real fatties are the moderates. :impotent fist waving:

*cough* Michael Moore? *cough*

But seriously, I'm liberal and this is funny, but probably there are as many fat liberals as there are fat republicans. The source doesn't seem to be un-biased, which makes me doubt the total validity.

Though, I'm sure we have a higher percentage of vegans....

of course, this may be more serious than i imagined. *shrug*.

For anything as random as weight vs. political affliliation, the plot should have a correlation of being <5-10%.

Though the conclusion isn't very solid, it's still funny.

rest easy, he has decided he no longer speaks for you:

actually, he never did speak for you or anyone besides himself.

The only people we are offended bymore than than this post are the fucking American Fat Liberals! Splinters!!!

Fair, Balanced, and Neutral are last weeks rubbish. Dogmatic is the new Objective. Get with the propaganda machine.

Just so you know, SG news is under no obligation to be fair, balanced, or unbiased. We're SG.

Michael Moore balances out the obeseness on the side of the Liberals.

There is a 95% correlation between lines drawn at random through data and dodgy conclusions

jesus christ. i guess nobody can just sit back and giggle about fun information.


LETS ALL RELAX.

or dare i say, "take a chill pill"

come on now.

Erm, for a 15% spread that starts at 46% voting for Bush, this isn't very convincing. Neither is drawing a straight line through widely-spaced data points.

Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, MetaTag. 14% of people know that