“…Those opposed to the use and/or popular interpretation of the ratio have argued either that the correlation is very low and hence not particularly meaningful (Demaria-Pesce & Nicolaidis, 1998) or that it is in fact an artifact of the statistical analysis used (Castonguay, Kaiser, & Stern, 1986;Demaria-Pesce & Nicolaidis, 1998;Panksepp, 1973). On the other side of the argument, a significant correlation between meal size and postmeal interval has been reported in multiple labs and paradigms (Bernstein, 1976;Collier, Johnson, & Mitchell, 1999;Davies, 1977;de Castro, 1988a;Le Magnen, 1981, 1984a, 1984bRosenwasser, Boulos, & Terman, 1981;Thomas & Mayer, 1978) and in multiple species (Auffray & Marcilloux, 1983;de Castro, 1988b;Hansen, Jen, & Kalnasy, 1981;Langhans, Senn, Scharrer, & Eggenberger, 1988;Rashotte et al, 1984;Sanderson & Vanderweele, 1975;Savory, 1981). Further, the correlations in some instances have ranged as high as ϳ.7.…”