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3/4 of US polled
Yes that's how statistics work.
Lmao yeah I’m not sure what the commenter is implying? The question we should be asking is if the polled population is representative of the general population.
Do they expect the study to poll the entire US population?
I’m positive the Lancet will manage to produce a representative sample and sample size sufficient to ensure this
Ok so I looked in to their sources and boy, you're under selling it.
They used 130+ sources of 10's of thousands of surveyed people, each. Typical sample sizes were 70,000+.
This is a meta analysis. The number of people contributing to this analysis is wide enough to put to rest any doubt that it's a representative sample ten times over.
Arrogantly appending "polled" to those figures is like proudly proclaiming that teen pregnancies drop off sharply after age 19.
Well 69 is actually closer to 2/3 anyway
Ok, thank you. I was seeing 3/4 (75%) and 40% and was very confused lol.
Overweight and obese are two different categories. 40% are obese. Nearly 75% are overweight or obese.
Oh dear :(