Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-12-2009

[andrewducker]

• Plan 9 Teaser Trailer
  They seem to have missed the point and made something that looks merely "quite bad" rather than "the worst film ever"
  (tags: movies trailer video EpicFail)
• Low self-esteem leads to obesity
  The children had their weight and height measured by a nurse at the age of 10 and they self-reported when they were 30. Their emotional states were also noted, the researchers reported in the journal BMC Medicine. Children with a lower self-esteem, those who felt less in control of their lives, and those who worried often were more likely to gain weight over the next 20 years, the results showed.
  (tags: obesity children weight)

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

There's a lot missing from that second link-- like how large the weight difference is, and what proportion of the kids with low self-esteem were already worried about their weight. The latter might indicate more of a genetic inclination to get fat, and/or earlier dieting, which carries a risk of putting on more weight.

[andrewducker]

Yup - some actual figures would have been nice - and to know whether they'd taken earlier weight into account.

[sterlingspider.livejournal.com]

ack!

Low self esteem is correlated with obesity.

/psych geek

[andrewducker]

Actually it's more that low self esteem _as a child_ is correlated with obesity _as an adult_. Which would seem to indicate that A leads to B - although they could both be caused by the same thing.

[sterlingspider.livejournal.com]

Which would seem to indicate that A leads to B - although they could both be caused by the same thing.

Yes.

Psych research rule #1 (literally): correlation does not equal causation.

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

Low self-esteem leads to obesity
Hey, I'm living proof!