I honestly thought this was a fake news headline from The Onion when I saw it in my Twitter feed. Turns out it’s a story from the New York Times!
(Now where’d I leave that bag of Doritos?)
I honestly thought this was a fake news headline from The Onion when I saw it in my Twitter feed. Turns out it’s a story from the New York Times!
(Now where’d I leave that bag of Doritos?)
I started this blog in 2006 when I was doing my Master of Library Science degree at the University of Western Ontario.
I started this blog in 2006 when I was doing my Master of Library Science degree at the University of Western Ontario.
6,901 posts and 3,356 comments since 2006.
Comments 1
Case of a reliable result not really answering the right policy question. Yes, overweight people have lower mortality _in general_, but you have to consider a whole bunch of exogenous variables.
– already sick people are more likely to be thin
– overweight people are more likely to be monitored more closely by the health system
– the data represent the globe – thin people in developing countries are both more likely to be thin and more likely to die.
Of course, morality data do not answer questions about quality of life, increases or decreases in happiness, problems (or benefits) of over-consumption and costs related to chronic health problems.