Nutrition perspectives

By Mariana Garcia-Serrato

Last updated about 4 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

What is being shown in the x-axis?

The percentage of americans that consider that a food is healthy

The percentage of Americans that like a particular food product

The percentage of nutritionists that consider that a food is healthy

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

While most Americans (80%) think that this is an unhealthy snack, nutritionists disagree (only 50% think it is not healthy)

According to nutritionists, granola is a healthy food since it shows 80%.

Granola is in the mid-range between healthy and unhealthy

While most Americans (80%) think that this is a healthy snack, nutritionists disagree (only 50% think it is healthy)

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%

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

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.