Comment by raincole
1 year ago
> IMO the graph is misleading a bit.
...how?
Like, seriously how? The graph is about sugar. It doesn't have obese or similar words in it.
If there is a graph of "U.S. citizen's smartphone usage trend from 2010-2021", are you going to say it's misleading a bit because it doesn't take sugar into account...?
It is misleading people because people see the graph and compare it to the graph of rising obesity levels and infer (incorrectly) that if sugar is falling and obesity is rising then it is not sugar that is responsible for obesity.
The truth is that obesity is more complex problem but sugar definitely one of the important drivers.
One way obesity is a complex problem is that in most people it is delayed by decades. Our bodies can take a lot of punishment for a long time before they become disregulated enough to start gaining weight.
In this particular sense, it's 100% "people"'s fault. This graph just doesn't say it. It really doesn't. If people misreading something makes it misleading, I really wonder if there is any graph that isn't misleading ever.
So you draw your own faulty and misleading conclusions from a graph which never says anything about obesity, and then say it's the graph that is misleading not your analysis?
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