[Shugarl]

> Make people less fat by moving where the produce is in the store

It doesn't? Not even a little bit ? Genuine question. One of the example of data exploitation I was given in university is that retail companies look for patterns in the thing their customers buy, and when they see that people who buy X-kind of thing also tend to buy Y-kind of thing, they tend to put X and Y right next to each other to push the customers to buy X and Y. Wouldn't doing the opposite work ?

[Calavar]

They may be referring to the research of Brian Wansink, who was exposed a few years ago for at the very least shoddy research practices and at worst active data manipulation [1, 2, 3]. A large body of his work centered around how to rearrange school lunchrooms to promote better dietary decisions. His advice quite literally includes placing healthy food first [4].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-cornell-scientists-downfall-1...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20180307074049/http://www.timvan...

[3] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/who-reall...

[4] http://www.brianwansink.com/for-school-lunches.html

[impalallama]

Moving single digit volume of sales and "solving" obesity are two orders of magnitude different things.