Nutrition perspectives

By Mariana Garcia-Serrato
Last updated almost 5 years ago
5 Questions
In case you need to open it to better view it, here is the link. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/learning/whats-going-on-in-this-graph-oct-10-2017.html


1.

What is being shown in the x-axis?

2.

Find Granola, and look at both axis. What does its placement mean?

3.

Select a food that shows a more than a mild discrepancy between what nutritionists and most Americans think. Why do you think that discrepancy exists.

The food you choose must have a discrepancy of more than 25%

4.

What's going on in this graph? (i.e. what would be an accurate conclusion that can be supported by this graph)
To answer this question use the CER framework

5.

Write a >140 character Tweet that could accompany the sharing of the of the graph.
This means, you would write a short sentence or two that describes one surprising thing you noticed from the map and you accompany it with one or two relevant hashtags.