"95% of diets fail!!"  -A thought in mathematics, fat shaming, and made up statistics Let's, for purposes of argument, assume that 95% of diets do fail.  Let's look at a statistical analysis. Assumptions: 95% of diets fail Everybody attempts a diet on the first day of every period (month, year, quarter, doesn't really matter) Once someone successfully diets, they do not need to start a new diet (kinda like they made a lifestyle change) The amount of people that failed after attempting a diet X amount of times: After first attempt:  95% failed After second attempt: 90.5% failed After third attempt:  85.7% failed After fourth attempt:  81.45% failed Continuing on, after 15 attempts at dieting, more than half of the population will be successful.  After 40 attempts, more than 85% will be successful. . The point is, by fatshaming you increase the number of diets attempted.   This does increase the number of failures, but also increases the number of successes, which are then removed from the fat pool with each passing round.  Being that there is no real consequence to failure other than what would already be had by being fat, we should shame the living hell out of fatties until very frequent diet attempts are a very real thing.