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> Success rate also isn't the same as difficulty. > It's very easy to fill out a lottery ticket, but success rate is very low. > Difficult things require hard
by throwthere 4y ago
> Success rate also isn't the same as difficulty.
> It's very easy to fill out a lottery ticket, but success rate is very low.
> Difficult things require hard skills. Reducing someone's calorie doesn't require any hard skill that I am aware of.
I don't really want to engage with those statements other than to say I think morbidly obese people do have quite a hard time losing weight.
- chmod775 4y ago> hard time With which you mean the process causes discomfort? Probably less so than being asthmatic and/or a host of other things, but yes. Other than that there can be some psychological issues that make self-controlled treatment subjectively hard or impossible. But then we'd have found another condition that would need to be treated first, getting us back to where we started: Somebody running a study on the efficacy of a diet probably would want to preclude people psychologically unable to stick to it...