Do we have data on how many thin people have fat friends?
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Replying to @wesyang
that is an AMAZINGLY easy statistic that seems to have no studies on it
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Replying to @literalbanana @wesyang
I know Nicholas Christakis did studies on network effects of weight http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa066082 …
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian @wesyang
yup it's total bullshit https://www.bostonfed.org/bankinfo/qau/wp/2008/qau0802.pdf …
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Replying to @literalbanana @wesyang
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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2nd "obesity" was supposed to be "behavior"
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian @wesyang
I'm extremely suspicious as to whether we know that's even true
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Replying to @literalbanana @The_Lagrangian
(given that almost all behavioral obesity interventions fail within a year, people can maybe keep of a few pounds)
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environmental toxin theory under-explored, lots of assumptions all around
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Replying to @literalbanana @The_Lagrangian
agree - I'm skeptical of the focus on HFCS but do think there's probably a food supply factor
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