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I'd love to have access to the raw data to feed it into R. I'm fairly positive even with Appalachia included there is still going to be a strong positive corre

• gohrt 13y ago
  That's not really how averages work, though. You can't just smash two modes of a bimodal distribution together and treat it like a unimodal distribution. I mean, you can, but it generates garbage results.
  • Patrick_Devine 13y ago
    It's hard to draw that conclusion without knowing what's in either data set. I'm fairly certain that the obesity data would have gender as one of its attributes, and it's also probable that any death statistics would include other vital stats such as height and weight at time of death. But you're right, it's certainly possible that all of the women in those states are of normal weight and it's only the men who are obese. I'm being a little glib though, it's hard to know without seeing the data.