I’ve downvoted this comment; in light of your edit, I’ll explain why. Basically, I think it’s technically true but unhelpful.
There is indeed “no mystery in Americans getting fatter if we condition on the trajectory of mean calorie intake”, but that’s a very silly thing to condition on. I think your comment reads as if you think it’s a reasonable thing to condition on.
I see in your comments downthread that you don’t actually intend to take the ‘increased calorie intake is the root cause’ position. All I can say is that in my subjective judgement, this comment really sounds like you are taking that position and is therefore a bad comment.
(And I actually gave it an agreement upvote because I think it’s all technically true)
I think the people who believe my comment is unhelpful aren’t understanding that the content in it that seems obvious to them is not obvious to everyone.
I’ve downvoted this comment; in light of your edit, I’ll explain why. Basically, I think it’s technically true but unhelpful.
There is indeed “no mystery in Americans getting fatter if we condition on the trajectory of mean calorie intake”, but that’s a very silly thing to condition on. I think your comment reads as if you think it’s a reasonable thing to condition on.
I see in your comments downthread that you don’t actually intend to take the ‘increased calorie intake is the root cause’ position. All I can say is that in my subjective judgement, this comment really sounds like you are taking that position and is therefore a bad comment.
(And I actually gave it an agreement upvote because I think it’s all technically true)
I think the people who believe my comment is unhelpful aren’t understanding that the content in it that seems obvious to them is not obvious to everyone.