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Oct 03
According to a Scrawny Sample, Fatter Applicants are Less Likely to Get into Graduate School
October 3, 2013
A recently published article on “Weight Bias in Graduate School Admissions” (gated link here) inadvertently highlights the dangers of drawing global conclusions based on inappropriate samples. Based on responses from 97 applicants to one university’s psychology department, the study asserts that graduate applicants with a higher Body Mass Index (BMI) tend to receive significantly fewer post-interview offers of admission. This small and specifically defined sample is probably unrepresentative of the entire population of graduate school applicants for the following reasons:
When a sample is both small and unrepresentative, the conclusions drawn from it should be scrutinized. Although the claim that overweight applicants are disadvantaged in the graduate admissions process sounds plausible, this article does not succeed in demonstrating this result scientifically.