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> Its most striking finding was that people who sat more than 11 hours a day had a 40% higher risk of dying in the next three years than people who sat less tha
by sathishmanohar 15y ago
> Its most striking finding was that people who sat more than 11 hours a day had a 40% higher risk of dying in the next three years than people who sat less than four hours a day.
I don't normally call bullshit on stories, but this statistic is f'ing stupid, I've spent 14 years in school and 3 years in college after that some 3 years as web designer. Its fair to say all that time, I've spent more than 11 hours a day, sitting. So, statistically speaking 40% of my schoolmates, college mates and colleagues should be dead by now, unfortunately thats is not the case.
- jessriedel 15y agoThat's a "40% higher risk", not a 40% risk.
- sathishmanohar 15y agoSo, how high is the risk if out of 1000 people, nobody died due to sitting?
- corin_ 15y agoAs a smoker, looking at myself shows that cigarettes cause 0% chance of death in a sample of 1 - you wouldn't neccesarily expect your 1000 person sample to show results as accurate as a much bigger sample size (222,497). But more importantly - this research was done on people over the age of 45, your 1000 people were aged 5-24. Using your age range I imagine we could prove that smoking 60 a day and eating McDonalds for every meal isn't particularly dangerous.