Bigger plates, more food--Or is it the other way around?

• Autores: John Allen Paulos
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 305, Nº. 5, 2011, págs. 20-20
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses ways in which raw data from studies can be manipulated in order to produce different inclusions, providing an example of a hypothetical study on plate size and food consumption to show that spurious trends can be extrapolated from weakly correlated data.