Onion Accurately Predicts Real News Story
Congrats to The Onion for accurately predicting a real news story three years ago. A just-released study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that having a friend who becomes obese increases the odds of obesity by 57%. That study has more than a passing resemblance to a 2004 Onion article, “Report: Scientists Still Seeking Cure For Obesity.”
From the Times:
Their analysis was unique, Dr. Christakis said, because it moved beyond a simple analysis of one person and his or her social contacts, and instead examined an entire social network at once, looking at how a person’s friend’s friend’s friends, or spouse’s sibling’s friends, could have an influence on a person’s weight.
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