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You've done nothing to connect obesity rates to sports viewing in this comment. At best, your anecdote connected obesity to being in sports bars.

parennoob 13y ago
As I said in the parent, don't bother nitpicking. To appease you, substitute the typical American living room on "game day" for the sports bar. I guarantee you the obesity rate is not lower.
- jamesaguilar 13y ago
  It's not a nitpick. It's a core and fundamental flaw in the central point of your reasoning.
mullingitover 13y ago
I'll bite: Look at the map of searches for 'college football' here - http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/the-geography-of-college-football-fans-and-realignment-chaos/ http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/the-geography-of... Now look at obesity rates at the county level here - http://www.maxmasnick.com/2011/11/15/obesity_by_county/ http://www.maxmasnick.com/2011/11/15/obesity_by_county/
- ewoodrich 13y ago
  Here is a map of poverty rates at the county level: http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/percent-of-population-in-poverty-by-county.png http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/percent-of-... I have a hard time believing that obesity is causally related to "college football" or televised sports in general. Except perhaps the fact that it's a sedentary activity, but a sizable chunk of HN probably spends far more time working in front of a computer.
  - m_myers 13y ago
    No, no, football causes poverty. And obesity causes football.
  - parennoob 13y ago
    > I have a hard time believing that obesity is causally related to "college football" or televised sports in general. Correlation is not causation, but it is correlation...i.e. things which will affect college football viewing might affect obesity as well. Ergo, if college football becomes too expensive to watch, maybe obesity rates will reduce. This is my hypothesis; only an actual experiment can show if this is true or not.

parennoob 13y ago

As I said in the parent, don't bother nitpicking. To appease you, substitute the typical American living room on "game day" for the sports bar. I guarantee you the obesity rate is not lower.

jamesaguilar 13y ago
It's not a nitpick. It's a core and fundamental flaw in the central point of your reasoning.

mullingitover 13y ago

I'll bite: Look at the map of searches for 'college football' here - http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/the-geography-of-college-football-fans-and-realignment-chaos/ http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/the-geography-of... Now look at obesity rates at the county level here - http://www.maxmasnick.com/2011/11/15/obesity_by_county/ http://www.maxmasnick.com/2011/11/15/obesity_by_county/

ewoodrich 13y ago
Here is a map of poverty rates at the county level: http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/percent-of-population-in-poverty-by-county.png http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/percent-of-... I have a hard time believing that obesity is causally related to "college football" or televised sports in general. Except perhaps the fact that it's a sedentary activity, but a sizable chunk of HN probably spends far more time working in front of a computer.
- m_myers 13y ago
  No, no, football causes poverty. And obesity causes football.
- parennoob 13y ago
  > I have a hard time believing that obesity is causally related to "college football" or televised sports in general. Correlation is not causation, but it is correlation...i.e. things which will affect college football viewing might affect obesity as well. Ergo, if college football becomes too expensive to watch, maybe obesity rates will reduce. This is my hypothesis; only an actual experiment can show if this is true or not.