摘要
The purpose of this study was to evaluate if Exercise Science students perceived their professors having high intelligence, based on a certain somatotype. A survey was conducted on 107 Exercise Science students at a Midwestern public university. Each student was shown pictures （male and female） of Sheldon＇s three somatotypes （ectomorph, endomorph, and mesomorph） and asked one question about their impression from each photo. A Wilks＇ Lambda distribution concluded at least two of the means for each somatotype group were significantly different. A pairwise comparison analysis was conducted which indicated that all of the group means were different from each other. Upon further examination of the data, a statistical significance was found using a multinomial logistic regression. The researchers＇ hypothesis was confirmed in that there was a difference in opinion regarding students＇ perception on Exercise Science professors＇. In conclusion, this study demonstrates that overweight people are also often perceived as less intelligent, unpopular, and unsuccessful than people of average weight. The findings in this study do support the outcomes of the research from previous investigations.
