Oh I didn't even know there's Kim Kardashian in the pic. And I also didn't know her ass is fake? by the way, I'm an East Asian woman with fat bottoms lol...
Do you believe that women with fat bottoms make more intelligent children?
As someone who studied biology and took courses in research data analysis, this is just another classic case of the journalist "spicing" up the news.
Everything in the article is true, about fat droplets, its importance in developing fetuses, and the fact that fat can be stored in women's butts and thighs. The title of the article, however distracts you from what the study concludes.
There is no indication from Professor Lassek or the study that big butts means more intelligent children, just that there are lipids stored in butts that is used for brain development. Only the journalist makes this conclusion.
As to what Brainbridge said, I'd have to see more context, but my first question would be how he accounted for the confounding factor that some children may be breastfed more than others, and what other chemicals, lipids, proteins, etc. are involved/effect nervous system and brain development.
Unfortunately, there is no link to the study (as usual). Just more pop science.
I've lived in China and among a lot of Koreans, I can confirm they have the tiniest butts I've seen in my life, yet they got the highest grades in my high school. Also South Korea is wayyy up there in the education ranks.
I think all these studies tend to have some merit but can get carried away in terms of the conclusions. It's almost certainly beneficial that a female's body fat is beneficial to the child during pregnancy. It fits the evolutionary narrative with women generally requiring more body fat than a male to stay healthy and fertile, and it's not a bold leap to then conclude that the purpose of the body fat is to nurture the child and ensure that it develops a healthy nervous system.
And it is quite certain that at least some women of certain ethnicities have a tendency to favor fat deposits in the thighs and bottom (this is not so much the case with Asian women -- they tend to store fat more around the pelvis and abdomen).
But then jumping to the conclusion that fat bottoms and thighs produce more intelligent children seems like a bit of a leap. There might be aspects of the study I'm missing -- wish I could see a paper.
school grades doesn't make someone smarter. unlike america, there are many cultures that take education on a very serious note. I used to see these Asian transfer students create all these math games and just throw problems back and forth at eachother. Of course, as an immature 17 year old me and my buds made fun of them but then again it had me thinking in the back of my mind, why am I laughing at someone taking their education so seriously? why is it so common in places like america to be called ''nerd'' or not one of the cool kids to be seriously on top of your studies? So thats to your question rainie, its mostly a culture difference. Now, I wouldn't put this study in the rash bin just yet.
more laid back parents give freedom in america whereas thats not the case everywhere. I'm not saying that we should be like them, because I think a lot of our creativity and diversity comes from being ourselves.
@Bobbyhill1 That may be true, however if big butts gives enough nutrients for brain development in babies then what about women with barely any ass at all? Would the babies be less intelligent because they don't get as much nutrients? That would cause a huge setback for Asians in general. I personally don't see much correlation, if at all to big butts and intelligent offsprings. Healthier baby though? Might be a possibility, just not something I've observed to be significant, I would want to see the papers to this study as well and see how reliable it truly is.
whats ''intelligent'' to you? Thats a very subjective word that gets thrown around lightly. Just because Asian countries are high in the ranks of education does not make them ''more intelligent'' therefor, to use them as an example doesn't really make a good argument. Think of it like this, Asians have a culture revolving around strict teachings, little to no holidays and great education. Their school systems are just overall more advanced than American schools and this is why they advance. Its not because they have some type of super brain lol. what IQ tests challenge your mind to solve puzzles, riddles etc.. they dont ask you questions that you learned in school, rather they see how good your memory and problem solving is. No amount of education will help that BUT you can train your brain to work more efficiently but every single person has capacity. Who knows, maybe these babies that are born from women with bigger asses have the capacity yet never train their brain?
so the only way to prove this is have a control group and experimental. The children born from women with bigger asses would be put in the same environment with children with smaller. Thats the only way to test this. Comparing two different societies that have no correlation doesn't really make sense
@Bobbyhill1 Yes intelligence is subjective. I think Intelligence is partly genetic and partly environmental. But I don't think the big butt idea is that relevant to intelligence because I think while intelligence may be genetic, I think a lot of it is environmental too through brain training like you said which East Asians have actually taken advantage of through hard work since hard work + intelligence usually creates the best outcome which creates a lot of top students. (Not everything in education is memorising).
All I'm saying is if big butts created healthier and smarter kids then what about the many Asian women that have small butts? Would that put the baby at a disadvantage or not?
@Bobbyhill1 Yes, going along with Raine_'s point, the suggestion is not that a lack of body fat in hips and thighs (or simply being Asian) produces more intelligent kids... merely that the Asian case potentially counters the claims of the article unless one can suggest, for example, that Asian children (or just children in general whose mothers weren't so curvy) are actually *less* intelligent overall than those whose mothers had curvy thighs and butts.
well rainie, the only way to answer that question is to have these kids grow up in the same environment, and then compare them and even then nothing will ever be concrete. I tend to hate things like socia and gender l ''sciences'' and psychology because of how empirical it is. im more of a physics guy lol.
@ak666 you can't counter the claim of that article unless you directly debunk it. There are so many different reasons as to why there is a huge gap from Asians and children who are born from these women in other countries. if They were in the same countries and same environment, the point would be a bit more plausible.
@Bobbyhill1 The same criteria has to apply that you demand to establish its case -- a well-established study with control groups and limited variables.
@ak666 im not saying the article is proven, but it makes some points that you shouldn't just throw away because it sounds outrageous. I also stated that the Asian argument doesn't really help anything. Thats all I am saying. The only way to really debunk this is to address the fallacy with the points made if there is one to begin with. Im not a biologist, but I do know that The mother's digested nutrients is passed through the umbilicus to the fetus. If the women with thicker thighs or butt has a lot of space to deposit these nutrients, I am pretty sure that it will make its way to the baby opposed to a women who does not have these deposits. whether it plays a major role in intelligence is up in the air.
@Bobbyhill1 The way I see it is that all of this is still in the hypothetical realm. As you know from the physics background, the validity of a hypothesis often revolves around its ability to make accurate predictions with verifiable testing criteria. It hasn't reached that stage yet as far as I can tell (and I've been digging up as much info as I can on this study).
For a start, as you said earlier, "intelligence" is an ambiguous term and it's rather unscientific to throw that word around loosely without establishing some verifiable criteria to assess it. Once that criteria is established, there has to be some verifiable way to suggest that children born of mothers who did not have curvy thighs and hips perform worse by this criteria than those who do.
This is just being misrepresented. What they're really saying is that the female body is the way it is to take care for and provide for babies. And that a reason as to why women put on additional fat during pregnancy is to enable feeding the baby.
There is then an unproven and untested parallel drawn saying that this fat contains substances that are linked to intelligence. Basically at this point its just a reason to IQ or otherwise test the children. Since they haven't done that yet, this is highly inconclusive.
Doing that news while showing Kardashian who clearly has butt implants. Oh well.
Frankly speaking - I can imagine it being true. Though more for nutrition reasons. A women who has more on her ribs (or in this case on her butt) will be more likely to ensure proper nutrition of the baby.
no bt research says women with fat ass have nice fertility... which is subconsciously hard wired in our mind... due to which without our knowing men tend to tick that in their checklist...
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