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Burgernomics 101: Crunching the data on Burgers and Obesity
- mathattack 13y agoMore burger variety = less obesity. This is a very counterintuitive result. I would like to see two other breakouts: 1) Quantity of Burgers ordered (as opposed to Burger options) versus obesity. 2) Fast Food Options versus Obesity. My guess is that populations that eat at McDonalds and Burger King tend to be more obese, no matter how many options they have. I would enjoy seeing data on this. Econometrics can be very interesting.
- lawtguy 13y agoI suspect that "burger diversity" is just a proxy for wealth. The wealthier a county is, the greater the availability of healthy food. Plus you can probably afford a gym membership and/or can walk/jog/bike outside without worrying about being mugged.
- bluntly_said 13y agoThis seems very clearly to be a proxy for wealth, from the article "cheap burgers are more popular in high obesity counties". Map wealth to burger diversity and this result becomes far less interesting. What IS interesting is the mapping between wealth and obesity. I'd love to see more data on that.