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actually according to the CDC Washington D.C. has a lower obesity rate than Colorado, but they do overlap with error bars. And D.C. is basically at sea level.
by kart23 3y ago
actually according to the CDC Washington D.C. has a lower obesity rate than Colorado, but they do overlap with error bars. And D.C. is basically at sea level.
https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/prevalence-maps.html https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/prevalence-maps.html
- nickff 3y agoWashington D.C. is not a state, it's a federal district. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.
- TheCoelacanth 3y agoWhen compared to states, DC is almost always the highest or lowest regardless of what the metric is. There is no state with remotely close to the level of urbanization DC has so it's almost always an outlier.
- InitialLastName 3y agoWashington D.C., being a small, densely populated region that is covered by a coherent public transit system, is very different from Colorado (which has large areas that are rural and heavily car-dependent) in ways that might well bias obesity rates independently of the (relatively small) effect from altitude. A comparison between Colorado and an actual state (which will involve non-urban regions) might be better.