Submitted by LuckyLaceyKS t3_1141apj in dataisbeautiful
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tilapios t1_j8tng0e wrote
Something that's dawning upon me is that I think a lot of people believe a busy graph means the results are more profound.
lollersauce914 t1_j8tpzik wrote
as in writing: brevity is the soul of wit.
leech932 t1_j8ujhcw wrote
There's also no need to list both a weekly and daily average - those both convey the same information, one is just 7x the other. The daily average probably provides a better picture - I don't think anyone thinks about snacks eaten per week.
AbsoluteCondui t1_j8uv0sn wrote
I appreciate you!
KoeiNL t1_j8vtikx wrote
Making a visualisation is the art of removing things.
cox_ph t1_j8tu9xx wrote
> This original survey of 1,135 parents around the United States was conducted by Main Street Children's Dentistry and Orthodontics using a Google Forms survey.
Yeah, this is far from a comprehensive and validated survey; this is ~20 parents per state that answered an online form. At those small numbers, state averages could easily be swayed by a couple outliers.
Slojoebrokemyhrt t1_j8tll2u wrote
They asked a tiny sample of parents how much sugary snacks their kids eat. Could be titled states where parents fib about what their kids eat.
notetoself066 t1_j8tp711 wrote
PA represent. Hanover pa, snack capital of the worlllllllld star world star
obiusm t1_j8z959s wrote
Not to mention Hershey!
PredictorX1 t1_j8tpp5p wrote
This presents on-line survey data of parents about the sweet foods their children consume, n = 1,135, with a minimum of n = 20 per state. Ignoring the obvious sampling issues, it'd be interesting to see confidence intervals of the mean for each state. Also, I'm not sure why the data is presented twice: per day, and per week, which is simply 7 times the daily figure.
shi-moon t1_j8tvx5b wrote
U.S. states = United States states 🤷🏻♂️
NikTheHNIC t1_j8ummnd wrote
U.States
fartydick t1_j8u4axt wrote
Yinzers can print this and hang it above their cookie table.
NikTheHNIC t1_j8umie4 wrote
Can anyone shed incite on how data like this is attained? I’m not a research guy, so be easy on me but I don’t understand how any method can create reliable enough data for someone to make these claims. Are they school surveys? Couldn’t find it on the site.
Edit: found it. 1135 parents were surveyed via google forums survey. Is this a large enough sample size? I feel like there would need to be tens of thousands of participants in order to make these claims. Also what’s to keep a parent from lying?
It’s an average of TWENTY parents who IDENTIFY as parents.
PredictorX1 t1_j8uu4t8 wrote
This sample size is meager, and this sampling process is sketchy. People who answer on-line surveys are not a representative sample of parents in the United States.
theFuzz1 t1_j8uqbaj wrote
Oh wow, I misread the title in an amazingly funny way. I came here thinking these data were showing states where children consumed more snacks immediately prior to, during, or post surgery. So, I was thinking:
are more sacks consumed by kids in states where they need more surgeries?
why are these states giving kids snacks during surgery?
why didn’t I get any snacks during my surgery?!
southpawshuffle t1_j8y2lki wrote
I’m not going to look at the findings, but first take a guess: the south.
southpawshuffle t1_j8y2n4y wrote
I was wrong!
LuckyLaceyKS OP t1_j8tk5ch wrote
These are the top 5 states where kids consume the most sugary snacks per week:
- Pennsylvania — 22.862 snacks
- Kentucky — 17.757 snacks
- Idaho — 16.439 snacks
- Alabama — 14.416 snacks
- New Jersey — 13.988 snacks
BovaDesnuts t1_j8tp36i wrote
Massachusetts is green when it's the home of the peanut butter and marshmallow sandwich lmao
CornDog_Jesus t1_j8um8ei wrote
Looking at you, Hershey, PA!
bigbrothersrule t1_j8ux3ss wrote
Better to measure sugar consumption itself. Utah is very misleading.
Dark_Believer t1_j8vwrtk wrote
I think that using survey data for this type of statistic is going to be much, MUCH less accurate than other forms of data gathering. Different social pressures, human memory, and biases will skew the results heavily.
One could easily request data from multiple snack\sweets manufacturers, look at sales numbers per capita across a variety of brands, and then come to much better conclusions. This would require contacts and influence with many big companies though.
Sure using Google surveys will be cheap and easy so that even a college student could knock out a report for their health class in a week, but I wouldn't put any stock into this data.
I'm from Utah, and I have no idea how we ranked bottom on the list. Utah probably consumes more sweets than average due to cultural pressure to avoid other vices, such as alcohol and cigarettes. Maybe Utah parents don't feed as much to their kids(unknown), but Utah adults eat a ton of sugar.
ybonepike t1_j8vy9c2 wrote
What is the donut number and then the other number in each state mean?
Sabers011 t1_j8xo35y wrote
Wisconsin looking good because they don't count cheese as sugary snacks
SignalAmoeba t1_j9k5lug wrote
If your data has Utah, the capital of the Mormons, with the LEAST amount of sugary snacks, and you don’t think to check your data - you clearly have never hung around Mormons.
lollersauce914 t1_j8tkxyt wrote
This seems very unnecessarily busy. There's absolutely no reason for the ranking to be a giant doughnut graphic scaled to the size of the thing that's already shown by the choropleth map underneath.
The rankings, which probably aren't needed at all, could just be added in the label for the state (e.g., 22.862 (1) for PA) or just put in a separate table.