Emory村 〜A packet of envelopes http://www.memories-book.co.uk/blog/satiric-essay/ accordance apricot dissertation juridique methodologie automobile If obesity is a health hazard, we prove it statistically by showing worse health outcomes among heavier people. But statistics represent effects in groups, not individuals. So, if some heavy people are healthy – either because they have fat in harmless places, have a lot of muscle and/or are fat but fit – they will make obesity look less harmful than it is; the lack of harm among them will be mixed up with the harmful effects among others and dilute the apparent effect for the population as a whole. Since the statistical harms of obesity we can perceive are despite this dilution, they are actually more severe than they seem among the at-risk individuals.
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