> A new study at Cornell University found overweight men in the workplace are perceived as more persuasive than their thinner male co-workers, according to the Huffington Post.
This study fails the common sense gut check. This study will not reproduce: it smacks of the same p-hacked, publication-bias social psychology nonsense that's plagued us for a decade.
It's plausible that men experience a smaller penalty for being overweight than women do, but to imagine that there's an advantage in being portly? That flies in the face of prior work (and much better-established work, though still shaky) on halo effects, but more importantly, it defies common sense and daily experience.
When will we stop believing that studies like this actually tell us anything?
This study fails the common sense gut check. This study will not reproduce: it smacks of the same p-hacked, publication-bias social psychology nonsense that's plagued us for a decade.
It's plausible that men experience a smaller penalty for being overweight than women do, but to imagine that there's an advantage in being portly? That flies in the face of prior work (and much better-established work, though still shaky) on halo effects, but more importantly, it defies common sense and daily experience.
When will we stop believing that studies like this actually tell us anything?