Body size and party affiliation

In My Humble Opinion
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  1. Conservative (would vote R if in the US)
  2. 6’4"
  3. 275lb
  4. Male
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  1. All over the board
  2. 5’10"
  3. 145
  4. female
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  1. Republican
  2. 6’5"
  3. 225 lbs.
  4. Male
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  1. Republican
  2. 17,653,000,000 angstroms.
  3. 0.5104167 bales (American).
  4. Male
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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.

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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.

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1.) Republican

2.) 5’ 9"

3.) 117 lbs.

4.) Female

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

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I’m just curious as anything here:

  1. Dem, but very very moderate
  2. 5’ 7"
  3. 103 lbs.
  4. Female
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I predict a lucrative career in the NFL

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  1. Naderite
  2. 5’7"
  3. 143
  4. Male
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  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.

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  1. Democrat
  2. 5’8"
  3. 140 lbs
  4. Male
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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!)
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  1. Registered Republican; libertarian in practice
  2. 5’10"
  3. 262 lbs. and still falling
  4. A dude
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Party affiliation: Libertarian / Independent
Height: 5’ 6"
Weight: 150 lbs.
Gender: Male

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  1. Usually Dem
  2. 6,0"
  3. 188
  4. Male
  5. Once. For twenty minutes. In the sixties.
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Dem (in IL you must declare R or D)
5’7"
135
female

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Democrat
6’4’’
240 lbs.
male

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Republican
5’7"
120 lbs.
Female