| ▲ | arjie 3 hours ago | |
> Wonder why obesity is such a problem for poorer families. Convenience. Assuming this were to be the case, one would need to explain why this doesn't happen to men. > Among men, the prevalence of obesity was lower in both the lowest (31.5%) and highest (32.6%) income groups compared with the middle-income group (38.5%). And among women, one would need to explain why it doesn't happen to Black women. > Among non-Hispanic black women, there was no difference in obesity prevalence among the income groups. It also needs to explain why no statistically significant result happens for Asian women > Among women, prevalence was lower in the highest income group (29.7%) than in the middle (42.9%) and lowest (45.2%) income groups. This pattern was observed among non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic Asian, and Hispanic women, but it was only significant for white women. Without looking deeper into the issue, the natural thing the income vs. obesity thing overall shows is a population blend issue (Simpson's paradox). It gets too tortured otherwise: yeah, Black women always have inconvenience, Asian women mostly don't have more convenient lives as they become richer, and White women get massively more convenient lives as they get wealthier. Men until 2008 got less convenient lives as they got wealthier and then their lives got neither more convenient nor less convenient but stayed the same. That's pretty rough number of epicycles to stick into this convenience angle. | ||