Body size and party affiliation

[Polerius]

I don't know how well this will go, but here goes.

Can you list
1) Party affiliation (Republican, Democrat, Other)
2) Height
3) Weight
4) Gender

I'm trying to see if there is any correlation between party affiliation and body size.

If you'd rather not reveal your weight, just skip that.

[Giant_Spongess]

Somehow I'm guessing that the results will not correlate.

[CynicalGabe]

BTW, self-reporting surveys are inherently flawed and have no scientific value.


1) Registered Green
2) 6'2"
3) 210 lbs.
4) Male

[Polerius]

Somehow I'm guessing that the results will not correlate.
And your stats are? :)

BTW, I forgot to add mine
1) other
2) 5 feet 9 inches
3) 155 lbs
4) male

[Polerius]

BTW, self-reporting surveys are inherently flawed and have no scientific value.
Not to mention that the sample here at the SDMB may not be representative of the US as a whole. But, it's the best we can do within the framework of a message board.

[picker]

1) Other

2) 6'

3) 200

4) male

[The Great Sun Jester]

1) Other (although I tend to vote against Republicans)
2) 5-6"
3) 180
4) male

[Oregon sunshine]

1. Anybody but republicans (mostly Dems and Greens)
2. 5'3"
3. 140, last time I checked
4. Female

[chaparralv8]

1) Democrat
2) 7'1"
3) 325 lbs
4) Male

[Giraffe]

1) Democrat
2) 9'2"
3) 765 lbs
4) Male

[Sublight]

I'm still registered to vote in the US, so what the hell.

1) Democrat
2) 6'1"
3) 175 lbs
4) male

[saoirse]

1) Democrat
2) 5'9"
3) 152 lbs of solid muscle, 8 lbs of solid fat
4) Male.

[ShibbOleth]

1) Democrat
2) 9'2"
3) 765 lbs
4) Male

Kind of light for your heighth, and short for your species, aren't you?

1) Independent leaning towards Democrat
2) 184 cm
3) 84 kg
4) male

[LilyoftheValley]

1) Unenrolled
2) 5'8"
3) 120 lbs
4) Female

[astro]

1) Lollipop Guild Libertarians
2) 3'1"
3) 89 lbs
4) Male

[Governor Quinn]

1) Declines-to-state (my state's version of "independent")
2) 5'11''
3) 220 lbs.
4) Male

[John Carter of Mars]

You don't need a poll for this! Just look around.

Demmie females are all short, fat, welfare queens.
Demmie males are all short, fat, Joe Sixpacks.

Pubbie females are tanned and slim, from playin' tennis and boinkin' the tennis pro at the country club.
Pubbie males are tanned and slim, from playing golf at the country club and boinkin' high class callgirls at the gentelman's club.

It's all so simple if you just pause to think about it...

[Happy Lendervedder]

1. Socialist
2. 5'3"
3. 60 lbs
4. Female

[AHunter3]

Can you list
1) Party affiliation (Republican, Democrat, Other) Registered Independent, voting trend is towards the Democrats at the moment
2) Height 6'0"
3) Weight 190 lbs
4) Gender M

[jackelope]

I'm skeptical about this, but I don't want to skew it more than it's already skewed by not participating...

1) No party affiliation; call me a Libertarian Green or something
2) 5'10"
3) 150 lbs
4) Male

[TheLoadedDog]

1) Conservative (would vote R if in the US)
2) 6'4"
3) 275lb
4) Male

[Good Egg]

1. All over the board
2. 5'10"
3. 145
4. female

[Martin Hyde]

1. Republican
2. 6'5"
3. 225 lbs.
4. Male

[John Corrado]

1. Republican
2. 17,653,000,000 angstroms.
3. 0.5104167 bales (American).
4. Male

[cowgirl]

Green (more hippie than libertarian). Tall. Big-boned but otherwise slim. Female.

From what I've seen, we're definitely the most attractive party (leadership excluded). Now, there's a hypothesis that demands further investigation.

[Polerius]

OK, if my calculations are correct, here are the results so far:

Mean height and weight:
D 1.84m 90.00Kg
R 1.88m 106.06Kg
G 1.79m 71.21Kg
O 1.75m 71.86Kg

Median height and weight:
D 1.83m 79.55Kg
R 1.93m 102.27Kg
G 1.78m 68.18Kg
O 1.77m 76.13Kg

D=Dem, R=Rep, G=Green, O=Other

Classifying some people was difficult (due to fuzzy party affiliations), so you might come up with slightly different numbers. And hopefully I didn't mess up the calculations.

In any case, it seems that Republicans are taller and heavier than the rest.

Before I started this survey, I hypothesized that Republicans would be "bigger" people (height and weight), so it's interesting that from this small sample we see that this holds.

I'm curious to see if it holds with a larger sample size, so I'm hoping we get more responses. If you want to add the stats of people you know (who are not even Dopers) please do so.

[Creaky]

1.) Republican

2.) 5' 9"

3.) 117 lbs.

4.) Female

[LilyoftheValley]

Before I started this survey, I hypothesized that Republicans would be "bigger" people (height and weight), so it's interesting that from this small sample we see that this holds.


How are you dealing with gender and mean/median gender size differences? Is that part of your hypothesis?

[Smashed Ice Cream]

I'm just curious as anything here:

1. Dem, but very very moderate
2. 5' 7"
3. 103 lbs.
4. Female

[Carnac the Magnificent!]

1) Democrat
2) 9'2"
3) 765 lbs
4) Male


I predict a lucrative career in the NFL

[Strinka]

1) Naderite
2) 5'7"
3) 143
4) Male

[Jman]

1) Democrat
2) 5' 11"
3) 226 lbs
4) Male

BTW...for this to be even close to accurate you're going to need 10 pages of responses...1000 responses would be better.

[baronsabato]

1) Democrat
2) 5'8"
3) 140 lbs
4) Male

[Corrvin]

Before I started this survey, I hypothesized that Republicans would be "bigger" people (height and weight), so it's interesting that from this small sample we see that this holds.

I'm curious to see if it holds with a larger sample size, so I'm hoping we get more responses. If you want to add the stats of people you know (who are not even Dopers) please do so.

Now you've gone and skewed the whole thing. *grin*

1. Other (Independent, leaning toward Democrat most days)
2. 6'0"
3. 210.... ok, the scale says 213, but I insist my clothes weigh 3 pounds.
4. Female (but I have a cute butch haircut!)

[VunderBob]

1) Registered Republican; libertarian in practice
2) 5'10"
3) 262 lbs. and still falling
4) A dude

[Crafter_Man]

Party affiliation: Libertarian / Independent
Height: 5' 6"
Weight: 150 lbs.
Gender: Male

[NurseCarmen]

1) Usually Dem
2) 6,0"
3) 188
4) Male
5) Once. For twenty minutes. In the sixties.

[eleanorigby]

Dem (in IL you must declare R or D)
5'7"
135
female

[AskNott]

Democrat
6'4''
240 lbs.
male

[Missy2U]

Republican
5'7"
120 lbs.
Female

[butler1850]

1) Party affiliation (Republican, Democrat, Other) - Republican
2) Height - 5'9"
3) Weight - 230#
4) Gender - Male

(Wife)
1) Party affiliation (Republican, Democrat, Other) - Republican
2) Height - 5'2" (or so she claims)
3) Weight - Undisclosed, between 100-200# (Even if I knew, I'd not tempt fate by saying! :D)
4) Gender - Female

[jali]

Liberal Democrat (and proudly so)
5'6" (or let's just say tall enough!)
135# (no comments please)
Female

I like long walks on the beach....my favori...oh..oops..wrong page.

[Shodan]

Me:

1) Republican.

2) 5'10", but I am taller when I am standing on the downtrodden.

3) About 200.

4) Male.

The Lovely and Talented Mrs. Shodan

1) Republican

2) 5'8", I think

3) about 130, I think - don't ask, don't tell, and nobody gets hurt

4) Female. That part I am sure of.

Regards,
Shodan

[Markus76]

Me:

1. Other but usually vote Republican
2. 6'4"
3. 225
4. Male

Wife:

1. Republican
2. 5'6"
3. 130
4. Female

[Mehitabel]

Me:

1) Tammany Hall
2) 17"
3) 9.5 lbs.
4) i am a lady archy always a lady. Oh, and I'm black. Except for my bib and paws.

Nearby Human who lets me raid her icebox:
1) Dem
2) 5'4"
3) 134 (I know, I'm working on it)
4) Female

[MadPansy64]

Me
1) Democrat
2) 5'2"
3) 120#
4) Female

Husband
1) Very liberal Independent
2) 6'2"
3) 290#
4) Male

[Eggerhaus]

me
1) socialist, votes democrat or green
2) 6'1"
3) ~285 lbs
4) male

da missus
1) democrat
2) 5'0"
3) 125 lbs
4) female

FWIW, son in Alaska and daughter in MO both vote democrat. From the
time they were very young we taught them that, well, er, um, there are
some things you just don't do in the family. :cool:

[koeeoaddi]

Libertarian
5'4"
112
female
old (not interested in that demographic, are you sonny?)

[Polerius]

Thanks to all who replied so far.

Here are the results up to post #48:


* Men and Women (44 total)
Mean height and weight:
D 1.75m 76.85Kg
R 1.78m 85.38Kg
O 1.76m 78.21Kg

Median height and weight:
D 1.73m 63.64Kg
R 1.75m 90.91Kg
O 1.78m 70.45Kg


* Men (26 total)
Mean height and weight:
D 1.86m 93.41Kg
R 1.84m 105.00Kg
O 1.79m 89.59Kg

Median height and weight:
D 1.83m 85.91Kg
R 1.78m 102.27Kg
O 1.80m 84.09Kg



* Women (18 total)
Mean height and weight:
D 1.63m 57.92Kg
R 1.69m 57.91Kg
O 1.71m 57.35Kg

Median height and weight:
D 1.63m 60.91Kg
R 1.70m 59.09Kg
O 1.71m 52.73Kg


Number of people per party affiliation
D 15
R 12
O 17


It seems that the differences between the party affiliations have become smaller than in my previous post.

Height-wise, it seems that they are all neck and neck.

One small exception is that democratic women appear to be somewhat shorter than the rest (1.63m vs around 1.7m for the rest), but this most likely is a statistical artifact and coud go away after more samples.

Weight-wise, there seems to be a difference between Republicans and the rest, especially among men. 105 Kilos versus about 91 Kilos for the other men (231 pounds vs 200 pounds)