Russell Williams
Well-Known Member
The Williams studies.
The stereotype is that if a bunch of fat people get together and eat they will eat everything in sight. Fat people say that fat people do not eat more than thin people. Is there any data that would shed some light on these two conflicting views? Yes, there is what I grandiosely call the Williams studies.
Question: As an all-you-can-eat banquet that they have paid for and where they do not know that anyone is watching how much they eat, how much food would a number of fat people eat compared to how much food the same number of thin people would eat?
Research technique:. In the past some of the meals at NAAFA functions have been all-you-can-eat meals. The banquet managers pay close attention to how much food is being consumed because it is their responsibility to make certain that the management gets properly paid.
10 times, at all-you-can-eat meals at NAAFA functions, I have asked the banquet manager how much food the NAAFA group was eating compared to a similar group of average sized people.
Seven times the banquet manager told me that the amount of food consumed was exactly the same. One time the banquet manager told me that the amount of food was exactly the same except for a time when a large football team or group of teams came and ate far more per person than the NAAFA group did. One time the banquet manager told me that the amount of food that the NAAFA people ate was exactly the same but they had drunk about one third more water than average sized group.
One time the banquet manager told me that the NAAFA group had eaten about one third more food than the average group. I tried to figure out why there was this anomaly in the data. The only possibility it could come up with was that this was the first meal that the people attending the convention had eaten after a long day of traveling to the convention.
Summary: When 10 banquet managers at 10 different NAAFA function all-you-can-eat meals were asked to compare the food consumption of the NAAFA group with the food consumption of non-NAAFA groups seven out of 10 banquet managers reported that the food consumption was exactly the same. One reported that the NAAFA group ate less than a football team would. One reported that the NAAFA group drank more water and one reported that the NAAFA group ate about one third more food.
Conclusion: These studies would seem to indicate strongly that the stereotype of fat people eating everything in sight is an invalid stereotype. People may feel free to quote and/or transmit and/or post the Williams studies in any venue they choose to post them.
Yours truly,
Russell Williams
The stereotype is that if a bunch of fat people get together and eat they will eat everything in sight. Fat people say that fat people do not eat more than thin people. Is there any data that would shed some light on these two conflicting views? Yes, there is what I grandiosely call the Williams studies.
Question: As an all-you-can-eat banquet that they have paid for and where they do not know that anyone is watching how much they eat, how much food would a number of fat people eat compared to how much food the same number of thin people would eat?
Research technique:. In the past some of the meals at NAAFA functions have been all-you-can-eat meals. The banquet managers pay close attention to how much food is being consumed because it is their responsibility to make certain that the management gets properly paid.
10 times, at all-you-can-eat meals at NAAFA functions, I have asked the banquet manager how much food the NAAFA group was eating compared to a similar group of average sized people.
Seven times the banquet manager told me that the amount of food consumed was exactly the same. One time the banquet manager told me that the amount of food was exactly the same except for a time when a large football team or group of teams came and ate far more per person than the NAAFA group did. One time the banquet manager told me that the amount of food that the NAAFA people ate was exactly the same but they had drunk about one third more water than average sized group.
One time the banquet manager told me that the NAAFA group had eaten about one third more food than the average group. I tried to figure out why there was this anomaly in the data. The only possibility it could come up with was that this was the first meal that the people attending the convention had eaten after a long day of traveling to the convention.
Summary: When 10 banquet managers at 10 different NAAFA function all-you-can-eat meals were asked to compare the food consumption of the NAAFA group with the food consumption of non-NAAFA groups seven out of 10 banquet managers reported that the food consumption was exactly the same. One reported that the NAAFA group ate less than a football team would. One reported that the NAAFA group drank more water and one reported that the NAAFA group ate about one third more food.
Conclusion: These studies would seem to indicate strongly that the stereotype of fat people eating everything in sight is an invalid stereotype. People may feel free to quote and/or transmit and/or post the Williams studies in any venue they choose to post them.
Yours truly,
Russell Williams
