One of the classes I sometimes teach at Brown is a first-year seminar called The Power of Data. On the first day of class, I start with this fact, from the CDC: In 2017-2018, 42.7% of Americans were obese. I ask students a simple question: How do we know this? Usually someone will respond with…

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