{"id":34331,"date":"2011-03-18T09:28:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T14:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=34331"},"modified":"2013-11-14T04:25:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T09:25:48","slug":"illustrating-a-spurious-relationship-passport-ownership-and-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/18\/illustrating-a-spurious-relationship-passport-ownership-and-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurious Relationship: Passport Ownership and Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dolores R. sent along an illustration of the nature of spurious relationships. A spurious relationship is one in which two variables appear to be related, but are in fact both caused by a third, &#8220;confounding&#8221; variable. Drawing on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2011\/03\/map-of-the-day.html\">Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s map of passport ownership<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/science\/articles\/2011\/03\/08\/diabetes-belt-outlined\">data on Type 2 diabetes posted at the US News and World Report<\/a>,\u00a0Mark\u00a0Frauenfelder\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/03\/08\/passport-ownership-p.html\" target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a> suggested, with tongue-in-cheek, that owning a passport prevents Type 2 diabetes. \u00a0In fact, both are probably related to a third variable, class: having the money to travel also usually means having access to healthy foods and sufficient health insurance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/03\/diabetic-passport.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34332\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/03\/diabetic-passport.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/03\/diabetic-passport.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/03\/diabetic-passport-500x190.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolores R. sent along an illustration of the nature of spurious relationships. A spurious relationship is one in which two variables appear to be related, but are in fact both caused by a third, &#8220;confounding&#8221; variable. Drawing on\u00a0Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s map of passport ownership and\u00a0data on Type 2 diabetes posted at the US News and World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,252,274,307],"class_list":["post-34331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-healthmedicine","tag-methodsuse-of-data","tag-traveltourism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34331"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59024,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34331\/revisions\/59024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}