Wait, really? This is a shocking number to me—I assume you got the figure from here or here (I assume both refer to the same study, but neither link to it).
More than 56% of those who eat out will do so at least 2-3 times per week—including in-restaurant dining and ordering food to go.
That is, conditional on being a person who eats out, P(>2-3 times/week) >= 56%. This seems difficult to square with either mean or median person eating out 5 times per week while the 90th percentile is 4-6 times per week.
Yeah I was working super quickly, and Google was being remarkably useless in giving me the actual number of meals so that was the one concrete answer I found. Curious if anyone else has better fu.
I agree 5 sounds like a lot but it’s out of 21 meals so it seems very not-crazy to me. Even if it’s 2, numbers still don’t add up—we don’t see indoor dining restrictions on their own cutting transmission rates by gigantic amounts.
Wait, really? This is a shocking number to me—I assume you got the figure from here or here (I assume both refer to the same study, but neither link to it).
However, this article has data that strongly suggests the real number is much lower (based on this underlying survey).
Core claim:
That is, conditional on being a person who eats out, P(>2-3 times/week) >= 56%. This seems difficult to square with either mean or median person eating out 5 times per week while the 90th percentile is 4-6 times per week.
Yeah I was working super quickly, and Google was being remarkably useless in giving me the actual number of meals so that was the one concrete answer I found. Curious if anyone else has better fu.
I agree 5 sounds like a lot but it’s out of 21 meals so it seems very not-crazy to me. Even if it’s 2, numbers still don’t add up—we don’t see indoor dining restrictions on their own cutting transmission rates by gigantic amounts.