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Exercise: Link Is Seen Between Crime and Fitness
The NY Times ^
| June 17, 2008
| ERIC NAGOURNEY
Posted on 07/16/2008 2:43:54 PM PDT by forkinsocket
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To: Paleo Conservative
You sir, are mostly correct.
The BMI is a useless number, you’re right.
However, you are wrong in the usefulness of this study and it’s printing on toilet paper. All that would do is ruin perfectly good toilet paper and make it useless.
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07/16/2008 5:54:28 PM PDT
by
Rammer
To: NativeSon
You are probably right, based on your experience, about body-builders being self-centered, but I wonder if obvious fitness has an effect on jurors and judges. What I mean is if two different people were guilty of the same crime, might decision makers go harder on people who appear physically intimidating compared to those who are small or fat? If you look like people's stereotype of a scary criminal, you are at a disadvantage. If you look inoffensive, out of shape, or like a “nice guy”, you may not wind up in jail, for the same behavior.
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posted on
07/16/2008 6:01:13 PM PDT
by
Stirner
To: Marie2
I could tell you this just by watching a random episode of COPS. The perp is always some thin guy without his shirt wearing acid washed jeans.
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posted on
07/16/2008 6:29:44 PM PDT
by
boop
(Democracy is the theory that the people get the government they deserve, good and hard.)
To: boop
LOL
And then there is the high crime rate among NFL and NBA players.
To: boop
Yes, most drug addicts are thin, too.
So the study shows drug addicts in their 20s are most likely to commit a crime.
You don’t say.
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07/16/2008 7:04:50 PM PDT
by
Marie2
(It's time for a ban on handgun bans)
To: forkinsocket
They have low body mass because so many of them are meth heads. They fatten up while in prison and then start tweaking again when they get out and by the time they are arrested and imprisoned again they'll be back to having low body mass.
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07/17/2008 7:25:07 AM PDT
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TKDietz
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