In fact, weight experts point to signs that a weakening obsession with skinniness can lead to a stronger attraction to fitness.
And women who do end up gaining weight, experts say, may simply be misperceiving normal weight gain over time as an unwanted side effect of contraceptives.
The new analysis should carry far more weight, experts said, not only because of its size and scope but also because the funders included the National Institute of Drug Abuse, whose director has been outspoken about the risks of increased use.
While sleep won't help you lose weight, not getting enough of it will probably make you gain weight, experts say.
Agreement was reported in normalised and raw-weighted Cohen κ using two different scales for weighting, Expert-weighted and triage-weighted κ.
Further work is needed to investigate the ideal model for optimally weighting expert networks.
The problem of ranking and weighting experts' performances when quantitative judgments are being elicited for decision support is considered.
In order to check the stability of the results and the possible existence of systematic divergence of opinions between high-weight and low-weight (or zero-weight) experts, the entire procedure was repeated by assigning to each elicited expert the same weight (w e =1).
The BBC was abundantly clear that the overwhelming weight of expert economic opinion advised people to vote Remain.
The weight of expert opinion isn't with these doubters — but the burden of proof most definitely is.
