Comment Well within the margin of error (Score 1) 41
An 11% difference in a study of self-reported food habits is inconclusive. For comparison, here is a graph of different studies conducted on different foods. The numbers on the bottom of that graph are 2 = twice as likely, .5 equals half as likely. We routinely see effects that are much, much larger being within the margin of error. Quoting the article,
the study "relied on people recalling their dietary patterns, which can leave room for misremembering or misreporting...Utilizing even the most sophisticated techniques does not really solve the problem that the information about diet is rather limited – which is obviously a big problem in nutritional epidemiology in general"
So you really want to see a much stronger correlation before drawing a conclusion. Eating hot dogs every day is weird. I have to imagine that someone who eats hot dogs every day probably has other things going on in their diet (like never eating vegetables).
