A poster below asks, What’s the obsession with fat people, anyway?

Well, here’s one answer: As Time magazine reports, a new study shows that fat people are less likely to attend college than thin people.

Using college enrollment as a measure of academic success, University of Texas at Austin sociologist Robert Crosnoe found that obese students had a worse experience at school than their thinner peers and were less likely to attend college, and that the effects of being overweight hurt girls far more than boys.

Time illustrates the article with a picture of a fat girl’s torso.