Okay, sixteen people are not enough to say much from. There will be large error bars in the following statements, due to small sample size. Nonetheless.
Taking E for exercise, D for diet, O for overweight:
p(E)=0.625
p(D)=0.1875
p(O)=0.1875
p(ED)=0.1875
p(EO)=0.125
p(DO)=0.0625
Exercise and dieting seem to be pretty well correlated; either dieting causes exercise (with 100% certainty over this small data set) or exercise causes diet (about one-third of the time), or, more likely, a third factor (a desire to lose weight, perhaps) causes both dieting and exercise. Strangely, being overweight doesn’t seem to be correlated with either exercise or diet… my first instinct here is to be suspicious of the survey’s small sample size. (At the very least, I’d expect being overweight to cause dieting).
It also seems, from this survey, that the best way to not be overweight is to exercise but not diet—though a mere one vote can very easily change that conclusion, so this survey should be considered to have very little weight at sixteen responses.
Okay, sixteen people are not enough to say much from. There will be large error bars in the following statements, due to small sample size. Nonetheless.
Taking E for exercise, D for diet, O for overweight:
p(E)=0.625
p(D)=0.1875
p(O)=0.1875
p(ED)=0.1875
p(EO)=0.125
p(DO)=0.0625
Exercise and dieting seem to be pretty well correlated; either dieting causes exercise (with 100% certainty over this small data set) or exercise causes diet (about one-third of the time), or, more likely, a third factor (a desire to lose weight, perhaps) causes both dieting and exercise. Strangely, being overweight doesn’t seem to be correlated with either exercise or diet… my first instinct here is to be suspicious of the survey’s small sample size. (At the very least, I’d expect being overweight to cause dieting).
It also seems, from this survey, that the best way to not be overweight is to exercise but not diet—though a mere one vote can very easily change that conclusion, so this survey should be considered to have very little weight at sixteen responses.