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Precarious finances: 38% of Europeans no longer eat three meals a day

www.euronews.com Precarious finances: 38% of Europeans no longer eat three meals a day

More than half of Europeans say their budget has tightened over the past three years, according to a recent study.

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Why is 3 meals a day the goal? I thought the 'breakfest is the most important meal of the day' was just a commercial series. I usually don't have time for breakfast and I don't really feel like I'm missing anything.

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- The goal is having the possibility to eat three meals a day.
  
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  The article kinda conflicts the two. It talks about financial situation, but then it just asks "Do you eat three meals a day?", and doesn't ask you to clarify why. I for example can describe my financial situation as precarious, as they want me to do in the article, but it doesn't mean I can't afford food.
  
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- I like the summary on Wikipedia:
  
  Present professional opinion is largely in favor of eating breakfast,[62] but skipping breakfast might be better than eating unhealthy foods.[71]
  
  I.e. you should eat breakfast, if possible, but not any product sold as a breakfast product.
  
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  I eat when I feel hungry and that usually means only dinner, sometimes lunch or breakfast but rarely all 3. I'm pretty low activity so it feels enough for me. I think eating purely out of habit at a certain time is a bad thing but might just be my anecdotal experience.
  
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  also it depends on what you actually do: if you're a manual labourer then yeah get a hearty breakfast, if you sit at a desk just eat a sandwich or something.
  
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- I was taught to eat four meals a day so you people talking about two or even one meal a day seems crazy
  
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  Raised on a farm? Mom had that where they'd do breakfast, lunch, dinner, and supper. But they were working off a whole lot more calories than I am.
  
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3 meals a day was never normal for me

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idk about everyone else but my solution to shit finances isn't eating less, it's making half my diet potatoes and onions..

i generally find statistics like these to be nothing more than ragebait.

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- I'm doing pretty decent financially, and I don't eat three meals a day. I just have awful dietary habits.
  
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I would also check the box at not eating three times a day. Because I eat so much delicacies in the evening, that I don’t need breakfast any more 😅

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I eat one a day if I remember.

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You folks too?

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Where is this from? Those buildings look familiar

Picture metasearch description says East London. Definitely not familiar

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Well yeah. If I sit at home on Sunday playing videogames, I'm OK eating once a day and maybe having some snacks. If I bike to the mountains, I eat my weight in food. If I work intensively, I might have three meals a day, but sometimes I'm OK with two and a coffee with croissant for breakfast even then.
You seem to paint it like it's some kind of a bad thing

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Where do they get these stats from ?

Bullshit statistics.

10k were interviewed. They extrapolate 10k to the population of Europe. C'mon that's just mad. Especially with something as complicated as poverty.

Europe also currently has a war ongoing and has huge areas of incredibly poor and wealthy. Can't really average that out. Wouldn't trust anything that comes out of this research institution

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- 10k is a great number for this kind of extrapolation. The only concern is how varied that population was
  
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  For this kinda thing ? Really ? 10k to extrapolate into the population of what 300 mil ?
  
  Think that's pretty wild. For maybe a single question with a few variations but something as complicated and complex as poverty and spending habits.
  
  Iyf like to see the sources to back up that claim.
  
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- If that 10k is representative, that should give a very small uncertainty interval, less than 1%. You can get 95% confidence interval with only a few hundred samples depending on the standard deviation, so 10k is actually massive. It's pretty standard statistics, here's more info on how it's calculated.
  
  https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/introstats/chapter/7-5-calculating-the-sample-size-for-a-confidence-interval/
  
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  I know jack shit about statics, or this study, but 10K participants seems more than solid if it's proper science.
  
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- Dug around a little. Seems the 10k were split between 10 different states. Here is an infographic from the source:
  
  The numbers do seem inflated and don't add up very well comparatively between the different countries either.
  
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  Ah didn't see the breakdown. Incredibly leading questions and highly charges but seems legit
  
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- you're right! can you calculate the sampling size that would've given 95% confidence
  
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