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The problem is that a study of the correlation of wine drinking with obesity would find an inverse correlation, as people who drink wine are more likely to be a
by jschwartzi 10y ago
The problem is that a study of the correlation of wine drinking with obesity would find an inverse correlation, as people who drink wine are more likely to be affluent and thus less likely to overeat. I think that when we get down to it the obesity epidemic in the US is a consequence of people not having enough time or money to buy unprocessed foods and cook them, and not a consequence of their lack of control.
- throw_away_777 10y agoI would need to see the data. But already we can have a useful conversation about this fictional data, as opposed to a study where they gave an extra glass of wine to 10 people as opposed to a "control" sample of 10 more people and observed what happened. Such a study is basically useless given the noise in what gets published. For years tobacco companies argued that correlation is not causation.