Obesity by state:
# of fast food restaurants
and
% of residents that have gym memberships
By Nick MacMillan
My hypothesis is that the amount of fast food restaurants in a state will correlate more highly with obesity than the amount of gym memberships.
HYPOTHESIS
fast food restaurants per 100,000 residents by state and % with gym memberships
State | FF restaurants | % that have GM |
Alabama | 10.1 | 10.20% |
Arizona | 7.4 | 17.50% |
Arkansas | 8.6 | 18.10% |
California | 6.1 | 20.80% |
Colorado | 7.6 | 21% |
Connecticut | 5.8 | 18.50% |
D.C. | 9.9 | |
Delaware | 8.1 | |
Florida | 8.8 | 17.40% |
Georgia | 8.2 | 15.20% |
Hawaii | 6.1 | |
Idaho | 6.9 | |
Illinois | 9.7 | 19.8 |
Indiana | 10.7 | 14.60% |
Iowa | 8.9 | 14.80% |
Kansas | 11.6 | 16.50% |
Kentucky | 8.5 | 13% |
Ohio | 9.9 | 17.60% |
Louisiana | 12.9 | 14.60% |
Maine | 7.6 | |
Maryland | 9 | 17.10% |
Massachusetts | 6.4 | 25.10% |
Michigan | 10.7 | 15.60% |
Minnesota | 8.5 | 20.30% |
Mississippi | 9 | |
Missouri | 11.4 | 14.30% |
Montana | 7.7 | |
Nebraska | 8.8 | |
Nevada | 7.7 | 10.70% |
New Hampshire | 8.6 | |
New Jersey | 5 | |
New Mexico | 7.3 | |
New York | 5.1 | 19.10% |
North Carolina | 8.4 | 17.20% |
North Dakota | 8.2 | |
Oklahoma | 8.1 | |
Oregon | 10.5 | 12.50% |
Pennsylvania | 7.6 | 13.60% |
Rhode Island | 5.8 | |
South Carolina | 9.4 | 18.60% |
South Dakota | 8.3 | |
Tennessee | 9.1 | 15% |
Texas | 8.5 | 17.60% |
Utah | 7.7 | 19.40% |
Vermont | 8.2 | |
Virginia | 10.8 | 18.50% |
Washington | 7.8 | 15.90% |
West Virginia | 8.4 | |
Wisconsin | 10.3 | 16.90% |
Wyoming | 10.7 | |
Gym memberships
Fast food restaurants
Observations
Information gathered from provided internet sources
-Gym memberships and obesity have a moderately strong negative correlation
-Number of fast food restaurants per 100,000 people and obesity have a moderately strong positive correlation.
-Both have similar correlations in the trends but the Fast food and Obesity appears to be slightly more correlated.
-States with a high fast food restaurant density, as well as ones with low gym attendance, tend to have high obesity rates.
Conclusion
Both variables correlate moderately strong with obesity rates across the US, but the amount of fast food restaurants per 100,000 state residents has a slightly higher correlation at .357 whereas the gym membership correlation is .29