While I think that you’ve got a valid broader point about misrepresentation – my pet peeve is the use of “relative poverty” in poverty infographics, which has got nothing to do with being poor, but rather is a sort of metric of inequality – I’m not sure that describes what is going on here. They highlight Moldova as having a particularly high rate. Moldova is not, by European standards, wealthy, but also has a low obesity rate by European standards.
While I think that you’ve got a valid broader point about misrepresentation – my pet peeve is the use of “relative poverty” in poverty infographics, which has got nothing to do with being poor, but rather is a sort of metric of inequality – I’m not sure that describes what is going on here. They highlight Moldova as having a particularly high rate. Moldova is not, by European standards, wealthy, but also has a low obesity rate by European standards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_rate
You wouldn’t expect to see that if the poorer == more obese effect dominated in that case.
Finally, a decent rebuttal to my argument!
I agree about the conflation of absolute and relative poverty.