October 10, 2012
Nutrition polls
The clicky poll accompanying the story about nutrition in the younger generation now looks like this:
There are slightly dubious surveys, like the Weight Watchers one, and then there are bogus polls strictly for entertainment purposes only.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »
Yes, utterly bogus. There is no category for “I eat at home and somebody else does the cooking” which is probably the majority of the population.
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