Recent comments in /f/dataisbeautiful

internetcivilian t1_je0o0p2 wrote

Oh the irritating crowd you're referring to can and will change the science (as they see it) like so:

  1. Undermine BMI as a metric using the lack of association between the "overweight but not obese" category with negative health outcomes.
  2. Argue that this invalidates the metrics for "obese" as well.
  3. Argue that no metric has perfect 1.0 correlation of obesity and negative health outcomes.
  4. Conclude that obesity is a social construct that is completely unrelated to health.

All while claiming they "follow the science"...

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axc2241 t1_je0kca6 wrote

It certainly was frustrating at the time but I did understand their position due to Covid. The infuriating part was instead of telling me they were putting things on hold with Covid, they ghosted me and I had to pursue them to find out what was going on. This is after the V.P. told me I got the job.

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EqualityZucchini t1_je0k4cc wrote

If anyone is curious about the US, we are on average ~30:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/motherhood-deferred-us-median-age-giving-birth-hits-30-rcna27827

Up from 27 not that long ago:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db232.htm

Like in Europe there are big gaps between areas (this is outdated but the geo-patterns are still probably relevant):

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/04/upshot/up-birth-age-gap.html

I always find things like this fascinating... I was exactly the average age of a first-time mother in my county, when I had my first child.

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