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Developer here, obesity is strongly correlated with race, ethnicity, educational attainment. So, yes, income and poverty play a key role, but are not the sole
by jrin 11y ago
Developer here, obesity is strongly correlated with race, ethnicity, educational attainment. So, yes, income and poverty play a key role, but are not the sole determinants of obesity. The obesity map doesn't look exactly like either a poverty map, or a race map, or an education map-- it's a synthesis of how those factors influence obesity. See the home page http://synthpopviewer.rti.org/obesity/ http://synthpopviewer.rti.org/obesity/ for additional background on how the data were created and be sure to look at layers depicting significant clustering of the results.
- dougmccune 11y agoThanks for that writeup link, that's really helpful in understanding what you've done. So everyone saying how the map correlates with various socio-economic factors is right (in various ways) because the obesity determination is entirely derived from socio-economic variables. That makes sense, but it wasn't clear until I read the writeup you posted that that's what we're looking at.