[Mick]

My freshman year in college, I took a basic statistics course, and I had the (not so) bright idea to compare heights and weights of the men and women in our dorm with that of their parents' generation. As Terry pointed out, eating disorders are more common among women, and there was one clearly bulimic woman in our dorm, I didn't ask her to participate.

Both genders were pretty forthcoming, no one seemed to think it beyond the pale. I anonymized the answers, of course, but the heaviest people of both genders said, effectively, "don't bother, I weigh xxx pounds, and my mother is xxx pounds."

[Mick]

My freshman year in college, I took a basic statistics course, and I had the (not so) bright idea to compare heights and weights of the men and women in our dorm with that of their parents' generation. As Terry pointed out, eating disorders are more common among women, and there was one clearly bulimic woman in our dorm, I didn't ask her to participate.

Both genders were pretty forthcoming, no one seemed to think it beyond the pale. I anonymized the answers, of course, but the heaviest people of both genders said, effectively, "don't bother, I weigh xxx pounds, and my mother is xxx pounds."