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Record W4417075699 · doi:10.15173/cjsc.v1i1.3922

Too Heavy to Move? The Real Weight of Bias

2025· article· W4417075699 on OpenAlexaff
Jazz Jabbar

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Canadian Journal of Science Communication · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldHealth Professions
TopicObesity and Health Practices
Canadian institutionsBrock University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhysical activityWeight managementHealth benefitsQuality of life (healthcare)Physical fitnessPhysical stressMental healthBody weightWeight loss

Abstract

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People in larger bodies often experience weight bias within physical activity settings, which significantly effects their relationship with physical activity (1). Weight bias refers to negative weight related judgements that are often made towards people living in larger bodies. People in larger bodies are often encouraged to exercise for weight management but are also consistently mistreated and judged in public physical activity spaces (2). This creates a lose-lose situation fostering fear of judgement, lower self-confidence and a greater tendency to avoid all forms of physical activity (3,4). Despite the known health benefits of physical activity, persistent bias undermines physical activity engagement and contributes to poor health outcomes. For fitness and health professionals, recognizing this dynamic is crucial. To foster truly inclusive physical activity environments, a weight inclusive approach is essential (5). This means prioritize movement for its diverse benefits like strength, stress relief, mobility, and mental well-being, rather than solely focusing on weight management (6). Practitioners must also reflect on their own biases, in order to create physical activity spaces that are accessible, safe, and respectful for all body sizes, emphasizing health and quality of life over, weight or size related outcomes (7).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.029
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies, Open science
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.617
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0290.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0130.004
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0060.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.151
GPT teacher head0.454
Teacher spread0.302 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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