Study Guide – Rankism and Weightism

Study Guide – Rankism and Weightism

Lecture on rankism


1.       Which types of bias are forms of rankism?

2.       Characteristics of social hierarchies

What Makes You Click? — Mate Preferences and Matching Outcomes in Online Dating


3.    According to the study “What Makes You click,” how much additional income is needed for a woman taller than median height (5’ 5.5”) to be as successful on online dating sites as a median height woman?

4.    According to the study “What Makes You click,” in order for a 5’ 2’’ tall man to be as desirable to a woman as a man who is 5’ 11.5’’ tall (median height) and who earns $62,500 per year (median income), he needs to have an additional income of how much?

Women’s Increasing Wage Penalties from Being Overweight and Obese


5.    Since 1981, what has happened to the percent of white women overweight or obese?

6.    From 1981 to 2000, what has happened to the wage penalty for being overweight or obese has for white women?

7.    In 2000, what was the wage penalty, as a percentage, for a 7.4 point BMI increase for white women?

Confronting and Coping with Weight Stigma: An Investigation of Overweight and Obese Adults


8.       The majority of respondents reported what kinds of problems or disadvantages?
9.    What percent of respondent experienced job discrimination?

10.What percent of respondents have been attacked?

The Influence of One’s Own Body Weight on Implicit and Explicit Anti-fat Bias


11.For what categories of respondent’s weight, was fat implicitly associated with bad, and thin associated with good?

12.What percent of underweight respondents would rather have a drug-addicted child than an obese child?

13.On the standard stereotype implicit association test, did respondents moderately associate fat people with lazy and thin people with motivated?

14.On the explicit attitude test, were there differences in respondents’ attitudes with respect to preferences and beliefs about fat and thin people? What were the differences?

15.What percent of respondents reported that they would be willing to give up at least 1 year of life rather than be obese?

16.What percent of respondents reported that they would rather be divorced than obese?

17.What percent of respondents reported that they would rather be unable to have children than be obese?


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