Sure, but people aren’t having a hard time understanding that what you eat is what affects your weight. People are having a hard time containing their own appetite telling them to eat what they know will make them fat.
That’s why the comment above is being challenged, it’s wrong and makes it sound like fat people are stupid.
Thats fine, but just saying “people are being bombarded with information” does not mean they know. That’s what I’m challenging.
An implication of what I said is also, just because you understand it doesn’t mean everyone else does, or even in the same way. A lot of the time when people come in with a “well d’uh” argument to seemingly common sense studies, it’s because they believe they understand it and assume everyone else believes the same about themselves. Which is rarely the case.
We needed a study to establish that after stopping the intake of a drug that makes you eat less (and starting to eat more because of stopping), you regain the lost weight. I know people understand a concept as obvious as this, but apparently, if we needed such a study, it wasn’t that clear to some.
Being bombarded with information does not make one knowledgeable, especially when that information is often arcane and contradictory.
Sure, but people aren’t having a hard time understanding that what you eat is what affects your weight. People are having a hard time containing their own appetite telling them to eat what they know will make them fat.
That’s why the comment above is being challenged, it’s wrong and makes it sound like fat people are stupid.
I think Velociraptor is saying the study is stupid, not people.
Thats fine, but just saying “people are being bombarded with information” does not mean they know. That’s what I’m challenging.
An implication of what I said is also, just because you understand it doesn’t mean everyone else does, or even in the same way. A lot of the time when people come in with a “well d’uh” argument to seemingly common sense studies, it’s because they believe they understand it and assume everyone else believes the same about themselves. Which is rarely the case.
We needed a study to establish that after stopping the intake of a drug that makes you eat less (and starting to eat more because of stopping), you regain the lost weight. I know people understand a concept as obvious as this, but apparently, if we needed such a study, it wasn’t that clear to some.
It’s a willpower issue, not an information issue.
Then you don’t need a study that tells you that not taking the drug makes you gain weight again. Yet here’s a study saying so.
People just do studies, okay? We have a lot of PhDs kicking about, if we don’t keep them busy they’ll become unruly.