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Old 18th October 2019, 06:09 AM   #140
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Originally Posted by Distracted1 View Post
One might look at historical attitudes towards obesity, try to measure the societal tendency to "fat shame", and compare the prevalence of fat shaming with the obesity rate to see if there is a correlation between the prevalence of fat shaming attitudes and obesity rates.
I don't know how you could do that without the data being swamped by larger effects like different available food and different physical activity levels associated with work/transportation. There are so many potentially confounding variables that I doubt you could separate out something like fat shaming.
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