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No

I don't even know what the graph results are supposed to mean. The Lower consumption side is too jumpy and goes in the two extremes.

@LabPlot @LabPlot @science

One can fit a curve to anything. One should not.

https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/the-datasaurus-dozen.html

@LabPlot @science @dataisbeautiful @health seems like a classic graphic for illustrating the wrong variables being compared. To stick a trend line in the there should result in a loss of coffee room privileges for a week.

Statistics teaches how to measure the strength of a correlation. Also, science can help us understand cause VS correlation. You can't just do a curve fit and assume it means something.

The answer is... kind of, but only really at the lower end.

Countries with very low (around 0) electricity usage are going to be places where food refrigeration is hard to come by, if even possible, and so stockpiling and transporting food becomes more difficult. These places, then, have to grow or hunt their own food, and it's often just enough to get by, especially considering how much hard work goes into it.

Once electricity becomes more prevalent and food refrigeration becomes common, people tend to be a bit freer with their food consumption. This doesnt mean that they all turn into fat slobs, but it does mean that they have the the option to do so that didn't exist before.

Once you hit that threshold, you start to notice things spreading out on the chart, whereas there are basically no obese countries at 0 kWh, outside of a few outliers. I'm kind of curious about which countries are up there at 45% obesity rate and no electricity.

What correlation?

With this kind of cherry-picking and manipulation of data, you have a bright future in the news room of Fox News.

Consumerist lifestyle of (some) richer countries leads to both of these, tho I don't see any direct relation. I guess obese people may be more likely to invest in a bigger TV, may turn up the AC more, and spend more time in hospitals hooked to machinery?

Generally speaking, electricity is mostly used up by factories and businesses.

@LabPlot @science @dataisbeautiful @health I mean... A bit? But the comparison does come across as "computers make you fat and lazy" which feel a bit aimless.