Table 2.

Community perceived discrimination and positive regard toward a female anorexia nervosa (AN) sufferer, male normal weight eating disorder sufferer (NWED) and female sufferer of comorbid obesity and binge eating disorder (BED)

	Female AN Vignette (total n = 983) %	Male NWED (total n = 1033) %	Female Obese/BED Vignette (Total n = 1030) %
Perceived Discrimination would occur against person in vignette
Yes	48	35	66
No	45	60	28
Unsure	7	6	5
Positive regard: thought it would not be too bad to be like the person in vignette given weight loss (in AN vignette) or good muscle tone and exercise (in NWED vignette)			N/A
Never thought it	85	63
Rarely thought it	7	10
Occasionally thought it	7	20
Often or always thought it	1.8	7.5