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> I thought to myself "well yeah, Americans have also never been fatter," Do fat Americans run?

• eesmith 9y ago
  Some do. But "fatter" != "fat". http://www.webmd.com/men/news/20041027/average-weight-for-americans-growing-heavier#2 http://www.webmd.com/men/news/20041027/average-weight-for-am... points out that Americans are over 10kg heavier than the previous generation, but that's classified as "overweight" not "obese".
  • revelation 9y ago
    It's not a discrete scale, ceteris paribus every single kg will make you slower and increase injury risk. It's continuous.
    • eesmith 9y ago
      If you wish to phrase things that way then feel free to reinterpret the discussion chain thusly: 1) spyhi used a continuous scale: "also never been fatter" 2) _qhtn switched to a discrete scale: "Do fat Americans run" 3) I replied to that question, that yes, "fat Americans run", objected to _qhtn's discretization of a continuous scale, and gave a pointer to a paper regarding BMI, which assigns categories like "overweight" and "obese" to the continuous scale. Your comment comes across like you think I didn't know the difference between continuous and discrete, when that was the point of my response.