Obese politicians signal corruption, study finds

More accurate title: Obese post-Soviet politicians correlate with corruption.

In other news:

> "'I was too fat' Boris Johnson says we must lose weight to fight Coronavirus"

Perhaps the new svelter Boris will have the side benefit of reducing Tory expenses scandals.

I'm no statistician, but since the underlying population in this case (the set of all politicians) is much smaller than the general population, shouldn't that mean that a smaller sample size is more representative?

N is 15, not 299.

This is comparing one measure for each of the 15 countries against three other measures (cabinet minister's average obesity Vs. Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, World Bank worldwide governance indicator Control of Corruption, and Index of Public Integrity).

The 299 is the combined number of cabinet ministers whose weight were averaged, which is a single measure per location, not the actual subject of the statistical question (which is a country, not an individual cabinet minister).

It also isn't in a peer reviewed journal at all.

Fat shaming?