One of the weirdest statistics i came across is that people with masters degrees have ten % higher mortality rates than people with ph ds. Another really consistent one is that unmarried people have between two and two and a half times the mortality rate of married people. People become fat for all kinds of reasons, and people live their lives as fat people with all kinds of habits. This isn't actually a difficult concept for people to understand. It's just bizarre that we try and take this stuff in a vacuum and just parrot it out as gospel. And so the entire debate over obesity is where on the spectrum does it fall? Or is it more like having a mas degreelig m