Paleo Diet and Paleolithic Diet Questions & Answers

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The results of this year's paleo survey have been released, and are viewable for free by the public here: http://naturallyengineered.com/blog/2012-paleo-community-survey-results-released/

Does anything from the results stand out to you as particularly interesting?

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Matt · Answer 1 · 2012-04-07 16:31:14Z UTC

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Demographics: I know we're a fairly young group, at an age where we're trying to head off standard Amiercan chronic disease, surprised females slightly outnumber males actually.

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Beth-WeightMaven · Answer 2 · 2012-04-07 16:32:29Z UTC

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David, thanks for doing the survey. The findings I thought interesting were the number of female respondents (56%), how few folks were strict (23%), how just under half were actually low-carb (49%), and how few claimed to be doing paleo for weight (23%)

I'd be curious about some cross-tabs ... such as are the strict folks more or less carb?

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	I'll see if I can dig through the data and look at correlations. – David Csonka Apr 7 2012 at 19:15
	Do you think the low-carb number is low or high? I'm thinking it's rather high given the cut-off for low-carb they use, 50 grams. That's ketogenic. – Matt Apr 7 2012 at 22:13
	This is one of the reasons I'm curious about drilling down in the data. The number may be high, relatively speaking, if it represents lots of folks who identify more as LC than paleo (i.e., the folks Jimmy Moore may have sent to the survey). But at a glance, it also shows that if paleo was LC at one point, it's far less so now. – Beth-WeightMaven Apr 7 2012 at 23:04

L. · Answer 3 · 2012-04-07 20:18:34Z UTC

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Mainly, I was surprised to see how many women responded. I also noted that we're a bunch of winos.

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Nance · Answer 4 · 2012-04-07 21:40:02Z UTC

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I was mildly surprised at how few respondents are old fogies like me. New chant: "We are the 3%!"

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JeJ · Answer 5 · 2012-04-07 22:17:58Z UTC

Not super surprised about the female respondents- I have done a lot of surveys for stats classes and such, and females are always (ALWAYS) the majority of responders, regardless of the topic, where data is collected, how data is collected etc. I don't think it necessarily represents the composition of the population, just that there seems to be something about the female gender that likes to respond to surveys (or something that is put into the female gender through society that tells them to respond to things).

Have you checked out the results from the 2012 Paleo Community Survey?

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