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[TheWasteLand]

Reading this makes me so angry I want to hit someone.

But I'm too lazy to get my fat butt off the couch to do it.

[Krankor]

“In essence,” Dr. Walker said, “what drives them to be fit also drives them to be violent.
If this were true, prisons should be filled with young, white male homosexuals.

[djsherin]

Fitness equals crime.... hmmm.

I don’t think the fact that I run and go to the gym will make me become a criminal. But what do I know.

[Paleo Conservative]

The researchers, whose study appears in The Social Science Journal, used body mass index, a measure of height and weight, to assess fitness.

If they had printed their study on toilet paper, perhaps it would be useful. BMI says nothing about body composition.

[BGHater]

“In essence,” Dr. Walker said, “what drives them to be fit also drives them to be violent. It is also likely that those who are fit find themselves in violent situations more.”

I would have loved if they measured the inmates Testerone levels. That would have been a better qualifier.

[RightWhale]

A physically fit person could also choose to be a soldier, or to work at a physically demanding job. A side benefit is that strongarm robbers tend to pass up the physically fit and go for the lame.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This is the kind of crap that passes as "science" these days.

No wonder the whole freaking world believes in AGW.

[Plutarch]

Geez, having done the Death Ride this weekend, with 3,000 ultrafit cyclists, it would be difficult to find a group less criminally inclined. You'd be hard pressed to find a scrap of litter left behind. If you left a $100 bill on a table at a rest stop, it would remain there all day for you to pick up later.

Whatever is causing these convicts to be criminal, it isn't fitness and exercise.

[expatpat]

DUH! A skinny guy isn't likely to go too far with initiating physical violence, and how many fatties did you see at school beating up on people?

We all use the advantages we have: the nerds, their brains; the strong, their strength.

[Colinsky]

I saw another grim statistic—98% of violent felons drank a lot of milk while they were growing up.

[Marie2]

They are probably almost all in their 20s.

People in their 20s are generally in their best shape. I was in my best shape in my 20s.

[Biblebelter]

Cassius had a lean and hungry look about him which Caesar did not care for. Wily E Coyote was skinny. Snidley Whiplash was skinny as was the character usually cast as Simon Legree. If heavy guys are cast as bad guys they are usually bullies as Brutus in Popeye.

[Chode]

simply because most of them are animals... and you never see a FAT wild animal.

[TKDietz]

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.