5/n Well, the obesity rates were taken from the CIA Factbook This is manifestly inappropriate. The factbook was last updated in 2016 for these figures and mostly references reports that are 6+ YEARS oldpic.twitter.com/nWGQSW7k3l
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16/n Also, the fact that the authors call this "the least uncertain" data is pretty wild, because a) it isn't and b) the least uncertain sources are TERRIBLE for many countries so WHY USE THEM AT ALL????pic.twitter.com/EaRFI0TcSK
17/n Ultimately, I cannot see how you can take home anything from this research aside from the fact that some country-level measures recorded years ago correlate well with COVID-19 deaths and some don't
18/n I feel like @TylerVigen should create a new version of the Spurious Correlations website with COVID-19 deaths so that people can see just how pointless all of these ecological studies really are
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