Which of the following statements is the most reasonable explanation as to why 18-19 year old Canadians make up a small proportion of the overweight/obese population compared to other age categories?
A. The 18-19 years olds were more likely to underestimate their weight and overestimate their height resulting in lower BMI values.
B. 18-19 year old Canadians are more active therefore they are unlikely to fall within the overweight/obese BMI categories.
C. This age category represents a range of two years as opposed to all the other categories which are a range of at least ten years.
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Given only the pie chart, it is impossible to determine the absolute number of Canadians aged 65 years and older that reported a BMI in the overweight or obese range.
A. True
B. False
One cannot determine the percentage of the total population in the African continent that is obese or overweight using only the data provided in the graph above.
A. True
B. False
Suppose a magazine publishes an article with the headline “Americans and Europeans have the same rate of obesity” and goes on to support this claim by presenting the bar graph above. Why might this interpretation be inaccurate? (select all possible reasons)
A. The writer of the article is comparing absolute numbers to relative numbers which is causing the values to appear equal.
B. The writer of the article did not take into consideration the scale of the population values which means a small difference in the obese BMI bar equals a large number of people.
C. It appears the writer of the article did not take into account the difference in total populations for each region.
D. The writer of the article may have interpreted the Americas region as only the United States as opposed to including other countries such as Canada and Mexico.
E. The writer of the article may be including the overweight BMI bar in their interpretation of the data rather than limiting it to the obese BMI bar.
Which of the following regions has the highest percentage of adults (15 years and older) that fall in the overweight and obese BMI categories?
Americas region
B. Middle Eastern region
C. South East Asia region
D. West Pacific region
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