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by BurningFrog 813 days ago
People won't log all the food they eat, but supermarkets actually have data on what food people buy.

So correlating that data with people's health could be very interesting!

I don't think that has much chance getting past an IRB though.

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Youd have to somehow control for waste and individual consumption within a household, which would be very difficult!
Not for statistical studies across a population.
God forbid we use the data to do something good. But for marketing? Yeah no problem.