I always wonder why not showing a measure of spread (standard deviation, quantile in the plots). The graphs look very interesting but I am always dubious to drawing conclusions from average values, without understanding the spread and asymmetry of the empirical distribution.
Some shaded areas above and below of each line describing say, quantiles, remain very intuitive for people to understand and convey a lot more information than just the mean.
So women start thinking they're less attractive than others around BMI of 24 or 25, while men don't start thinking they're less attractive than others until obesity.
looks like the "this is the graph for only people aged 18-22" graph got mislabeled if i'm reading right
these are fascinating though :0 am i seeing a strong correlation with men's mental health and hovering around the upper end of the healthy(?) BMI range?
Very interesting presentation of data. Especially that recurring dip/bulge at the upper ranges of normal weight on the male side is intriguing.
The graph below the one called "Self rated attractiveness compared to others of the same demographic" has a confusing title. Shouldn't it also be called "Self rated attractiveness compared to others of the same demographic"?
An old researcher by the name of Sheldon came up with the somatotypes still in use today as Ectomorph, Mesomorph, and Endomorph.
Sheldon claimed that the lean ectomorphs were cerebrotonic - intellectual, private, intense, and (oddly) hypersexual. His corpulent endomorphs were viscerotonic - relaxed, good-humored, unambitious, and sociable in a friendly, submissive way. His musclebound, heavy-boned mesomorphs were somatotonic - restless, assertive, and not always good at knowing themselves.
Although BMI doesn't really distinguish mesomorphs well from the others, looking at this it occurs to me that the extreme ends of BMI are not bad proxies for Ectomorphs and Endomorphs. *Maybe* mesomorphs are in the middle, though that really needn't be the case. How do the personality items work?
"I am quiet around strangers?" Ectomorphs rather are.
"I sympathize with others' feelings?" Endomorphs do, a little.
"I have excellent ideas?" Ectomorphs *don't*.
"I shirk my duties?" Endomorphs do. (So do ectomorphs, I guess)
"I am relaxed most of the time?" Endomorphs *aren't.*
"I am high-powered, driven, successful?" Endomorphs and Ectomorphs aren't.
"I feel little concern for others?" Endomorphs do feel concern for others.
"I worry about things?" Endomorphs worry *more*
Overall not really a replication of any of Sheldon's ideas. Overall the low-mid BMI's seem confident and successful, while higher-BMI individuals just look to be higher in Emotionality (https://hexaco.org/scaledescriptions); fat is feminine.
How many people are in these these various "bins" of BMI (not sure the technical term)? You have some funky bumpiness around the 36-40 range, I'm just wondering if these are relatively small groups of data.
Looks like high BMI correlates with a lot of people things related to class (income and spanking were especially noticeable)
That correlation between social status/wealth upbringing and responsibility upbringing though... oof!
I always wonder why not showing a measure of spread (standard deviation, quantile in the plots). The graphs look very interesting but I am always dubious to drawing conclusions from average values, without understanding the spread and asymmetry of the empirical distribution.
Some shaded areas above and below of each line describing say, quantiles, remain very intuitive for people to understand and convey a lot more information than just the mean.
So women start thinking they're less attractive than others around BMI of 24 or 25, while men don't start thinking they're less attractive than others until obesity.
looks like the "this is the graph for only people aged 18-22" graph got mislabeled if i'm reading right
these are fascinating though :0 am i seeing a strong correlation with men's mental health and hovering around the upper end of the healthy(?) BMI range?
Sexual assault in childhood was fairly interesting but not sure if that just correlates to socioeconomic status growing up
Very interesting presentation of data. Especially that recurring dip/bulge at the upper ranges of normal weight on the male side is intriguing.
The graph below the one called "Self rated attractiveness compared to others of the same demographic" has a confusing title. Shouldn't it also be called "Self rated attractiveness compared to others of the same demographic"?
error bars
Great results, I'd love to know how the non-Western world sees things
Why is BMI the x-axis for every graph except polyamory? Kinda confusing
Regarding the economic/social liberalness/conservativeness, it would be interesting to see per quadrant stats.
An old researcher by the name of Sheldon came up with the somatotypes still in use today as Ectomorph, Mesomorph, and Endomorph.
Sheldon claimed that the lean ectomorphs were cerebrotonic - intellectual, private, intense, and (oddly) hypersexual. His corpulent endomorphs were viscerotonic - relaxed, good-humored, unambitious, and sociable in a friendly, submissive way. His musclebound, heavy-boned mesomorphs were somatotonic - restless, assertive, and not always good at knowing themselves.
Although BMI doesn't really distinguish mesomorphs well from the others, looking at this it occurs to me that the extreme ends of BMI are not bad proxies for Ectomorphs and Endomorphs. *Maybe* mesomorphs are in the middle, though that really needn't be the case. How do the personality items work?
"I am quiet around strangers?" Ectomorphs rather are.
"I sympathize with others' feelings?" Endomorphs do, a little.
"I have excellent ideas?" Ectomorphs *don't*.
"I shirk my duties?" Endomorphs do. (So do ectomorphs, I guess)
"I am relaxed most of the time?" Endomorphs *aren't.*
"I am high-powered, driven, successful?" Endomorphs and Ectomorphs aren't.
"I feel little concern for others?" Endomorphs do feel concern for others.
"I worry about things?" Endomorphs worry *more*
Overall not really a replication of any of Sheldon's ideas. Overall the low-mid BMI's seem confident and successful, while higher-BMI individuals just look to be higher in Emotionality (https://hexaco.org/scaledescriptions); fat is feminine.
How many people are in these these various "bins" of BMI (not sure the technical term)? You have some funky bumpiness around the 36-40 range, I'm just wondering if these are relatively small groups of data.
Whoa, the change in male sexual submissiveness from low to mid BMI is neat and unexpected!
“Rapist level” made me laugh.