Do we have data on how many thin people have fat friends?
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I know Nicholas Christakis did studies on network effects of weight http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa066082 …
yup it's total bullshit https://www.bostonfed.org/bankinfo/qau/wp/2008/qau0802.pdf …
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when I was trying to find an answer to
@wesyang's question I saw one study that 1) embraced contagion model and -
2) found fat women were isolated
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yeah, I shouldn't have said "effects" but "clustering"- the clustering is still there, but prob not infectious
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tbf under assumption that obesity has anything to do with obesity it's really weird if there are no social effects
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