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Less than 25 percent of Americans walk for more than ten minutes continuously in a typical week (www.sciencedaily.com)

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[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Could roughly work out to the 25% of Americans that walk for more than ten minutes being the dog walkers of those households.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That's not how statistics works. Even if the 10m walkers are maximally represented among dog-keeping households (instead of more evenly distributed), with no more than one walker per dog household (also extremely unlikely to not be clustered), at most 50% of dogs get walks from their owners.

Also, I have 0 dogs and I walk/run/bike 30-150 minutes a day.

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Even if the 10m walkers are maximally represented among dog-keeping households (instead of more evenly distributed), with no more than one walker per dog household (also extremely unlikely to not be clustered), at most 50% of dogs get walks from their owners.

Luckily, this study does not seem to be saying that at all.

Using cross-sectional data from the 2007-2008 and 2009-2010 cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), Furie and his colleague, Mayur M Desai, Ph.D., associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health were surprised to find that less than one quarter of U.S. adults in a nationally representative sample reported walking or bicycling for transportation for more than 10 minutes continuously in a typical week.

"For transportation" is important here. I walk my dog twice a day but I wouldn't describe that as "transportation."

This is yet another science headline that wildly misrepresents the study it's allegedly reporting on.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

Ah so the data was pre-Uber, pre-GrubDash, pre-Instacart, 10 years pre-Covid.

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[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

Was more of a hopeful estimate than anything. From what I've seen of American dog owners they seem to just have dogs run around in their backyards and call it at that.