If fat acceptance is causal for higher BMIs thru less social policing, does that mean that fat shaming is technically an underused protective factor for diabetes, heart disease etc.? Conclusion seems unavoidable.
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Yes, but correlational evidence can suggest a hypothesis. If social sanction and pay incentives serve to ward off obesity, those deriving passive, secure public support will have less spur, and might in longitudinal study gain more weight >age 18 than matched peers.
Jay's being silly. Almost everything he posts about is correlational: almost all behavioral genetics evidence is correlational, not experimental.
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It’s ok to infer causation from some correlations (though mostly not). In behavioral genetic relationships, for example, the object of interest couldn’t have caused the genes.
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