Very interesting. [I mean it]. So the poorer you are or the least attained formal education you have, the more sedentariness affects you?
As long as we keep moving further away from graphs about how the US healtchare is unreasonably expensive and with worse outcomes than single payer systems.
Ugh that age axis in the 4th graph. Might as well be random
Awesome way to present the data, but please be more consistent with the x-axies. Order them by the data in the axis, not the data you’re visualising.
While I understand this is a correlation, it feels like there’s this rhetoric that being sedentary is causing weight gain, but it’s likely the opposite. Being overweight or obese makes it harder to move around, and makes a person more likely to be sedentary. And this chart kinda highlights that a bit, indicating there are many more factors at play.
There have been multiple studies showing light to moderate exercising alone doesn’t do much for weight. Heavy to extreme exercise can throw the body into shock and can cause extreme weight loss, but will regain that weight once the body acclimates.
I’m also curious on how the data is obtained. Very few practitioners are measuring body fat, and just use the simpler BMI, which is easier, but a lot less useful. Using BMI, a professional body builder would likely be considered obese. Granted, a lot of the health complications are the same.
This is not correlation. I think you mean prevalence
I don’t understand how to read this/what the data is saying. Could someone please explain and also what is this type of graph called?
The four horseman of the apocalypse: Lazy, Fatty, Stupid, Poory.
This means all 65 and older in the 4th graph are 32.48 sedentary? Or what.
Associating a value with a color gradient isn’t very precise IMO. You don’t know the value of any shade except the darkest and lightest.
It surpsises me that people with higher degrees are less sedentary. I would have thought that these people primarily have office jobs, while lower educated people are more likely to do physical labour?
65 and older is the second lowest age group for obesity… Oof.
This might have been better as a scatter plot
How are educated white collar high income people moving MORE than blue collar people? What’s the definition of sedentary?
The lazier you are the less money you make ? Shocking.
It’s crazy to sort by percentage rather than the natural order (age, income, level of education). These are gradient scales.
For races, sure. (Except mixed race and other should be all the way to the right, since they are catch-alls.)
This is why I always advise my friends to be young, wealthy, Asian college graduates.
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Data from: [https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/nutrition-physical-activity-and-obesity-behavioral-risk-factor-surveillance-system](https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/nutrition-physical-activity-and-obesity-behavioral-risk-factor-surveillance-system)
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Very interesting. [I mean it]. So the poorer you are or the least attained formal education you have, the more sedentariness affects you?
As long as we keep moving further away from graphs about how the US healtchare is unreasonably expensive and with worse outcomes than single payer systems.
Ugh that age axis in the 4th graph. Might as well be random
Awesome way to present the data, but please be more consistent with the x-axies. Order them by the data in the axis, not the data you’re visualising.
While I understand this is a correlation, it feels like there’s this rhetoric that being sedentary is causing weight gain, but it’s likely the opposite. Being overweight or obese makes it harder to move around, and makes a person more likely to be sedentary. And this chart kinda highlights that a bit, indicating there are many more factors at play.
There have been multiple studies showing light to moderate exercising alone doesn’t do much for weight. Heavy to extreme exercise can throw the body into shock and can cause extreme weight loss, but will regain that weight once the body acclimates.
I’m also curious on how the data is obtained. Very few practitioners are measuring body fat, and just use the simpler BMI, which is easier, but a lot less useful. Using BMI, a professional body builder would likely be considered obese. Granted, a lot of the health complications are the same.
This is not correlation. I think you mean prevalence
I don’t understand how to read this/what the data is saying. Could someone please explain and also what is this type of graph called?
The four horseman of the apocalypse: Lazy, Fatty, Stupid, Poory.
This means all 65 and older in the 4th graph are 32.48 sedentary? Or what.
Associating a value with a color gradient isn’t very precise IMO. You don’t know the value of any shade except the darkest and lightest.
It surpsises me that people with higher degrees are less sedentary. I would have thought that these people primarily have office jobs, while lower educated people are more likely to do physical labour?
65 and older is the second lowest age group for obesity… Oof.
This might have been better as a scatter plot
How are educated white collar high income people moving MORE than blue collar people? What’s the definition of sedentary?
The lazier you are the less money you make ? Shocking.
It’s crazy to sort by percentage rather than the natural order (age, income, level of education). These are gradient scales.
For races, sure. (Except mixed race and other should be all the way to the right, since they are catch-alls.)
This is why I always advise my friends to be young, wealthy, Asian college graduates.
What a bizarre way to visualize this data.
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