Comments on: Depressed, Sick, and Fat? Blame Your Friends! http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/31/depressed-sick-and-fat-blame-your-friends/ The Neat Side of the Web Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:47:17 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: TomM http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/31/depressed-sick-and-fat-blame-your-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-1334344 TomM Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:59:07 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/31/depressed-sick-and-fat-blame-your-friends/#comment-1334344 @egg nogged Thats means if it wasnt for you, your friends would have exploded a long time ago :) @egg nogged

Thats means if it wasnt for you, your friends would have exploded a long time ago :)

]]> By: egg nogged http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/31/depressed-sick-and-fat-blame-your-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-1329533 egg nogged Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:01:49 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/31/depressed-sick-and-fat-blame-your-friends/#comment-1329533 I'm slender and everyone else around me is fat. So what the hell does that mean professor? Huh? I'm slender and everyone else around me is fat.
So what the hell does that mean professor? Huh?

]]> By: liphttam1 http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/31/depressed-sick-and-fat-blame-your-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-1329279 liphttam1 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:37:00 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/31/depressed-sick-and-fat-blame-your-friends/#comment-1329279 Hey buddy, I know we have the same name and your my best freind and people often confuse us, but.... YOUR MAKEING ME FAT!!!!! Hey buddy, I know we have the same name and your my best freind and people often confuse us, but.... YOUR MAKEING ME FAT!!!!!

]]> By: acb http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/31/depressed-sick-and-fat-blame-your-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-1328949 acb Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:51:56 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/31/depressed-sick-and-fat-blame-your-friends/#comment-1328949 If I had any friends, I'd know whom to blame. Too bad I don't have any friends :( If I had any friends, I'd know whom to blame. Too bad I don't have any friends :(

]]> By: student http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/31/depressed-sick-and-fat-blame-your-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-1328898 student Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:44:22 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/31/depressed-sick-and-fat-blame-your-friends/#comment-1328898 i actually took a class at harvard with christakis, one of the profs who authored this study. not only was it a great class, he also presented his findings to us in the last unit of the course - the study was completed after some 35-odd years of analyzing weight and weight gain in social networks. he showed us a time-lapse movie that looked kind of like the pictures shown and it was amazing - you could see one large dot representing an obese person connected to a smallers dot representing that person's close relations/friends, and over time the smaller dots would grow in size (dots are BMI i think...) if i can find the video online, i'll post it in another comment! i actually took a class at harvard with christakis, one of the profs who authored this study. not only was it a great class, he also presented his findings to us in the last unit of the course - the study was completed after some 35-odd years of analyzing weight and weight gain in social networks. he showed us a time-lapse movie that looked kind of like the pictures shown and it was amazing - you could see one large dot representing an obese person connected to a smallers dot representing that person's close relations/friends, and over time the smaller dots would grow in size (dots are BMI i think...) if i can find the video online, i'll post it in another comment!

]]> By: DOJ http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/31/depressed-sick-and-fat-blame-your-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-1328838 DOJ Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:10:37 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/31/depressed-sick-and-fat-blame-your-friends/#comment-1328838 Remember, correlation doesn't mean causation. Remember, correlation doesn't mean causation.

]]> By: anna cook http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/31/depressed-sick-and-fat-blame-your-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-1328818 anna cook Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:44:30 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/31/depressed-sick-and-fat-blame-your-friends/#comment-1328818 Just found you . great site! thanks Just found you . great site!

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