Depending on your size, you may wonder whether your weight or body size affected your ability to do field sobriety tests. The answer is yes, it absolutely can.
If you are overweight, you may naturally have balance issues. Your center of gravity is different, and that can impact how you perform on these tests.
Also keep in mind: when officers are trained on field sobriety testing, the studies used to validate these tests were based on 20-year-old men who were not overweight.
In other words, field sobriety tests were not really designed with overweight people in mind.
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