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> How do you estimate the weight of a person? Practice. In theory if you're doing this a lot, you should be able do a decent job of estimating +/- 10%, which
by JshWright 6y ago
> How do you estimate the weight of a person?
Practice. In theory if you're doing this a lot, you should be able do a decent job of estimating +/- 10%, which is more than accurate enough.
There are certainly other complications (some medications are dosed on "ideal body weight" (ignoring subcutaneous fat), etc...)
- mauvehaus 6y agoI'll second this. Climbers tend to get at least half-way decent estimating the weight of other climbers because it's pretty relevant if you're lead belaying somebody. In fairness, we're usually estimating the weight of people of fairly fit builds, but with some practice estimating people of other builds, I agree that you'd get within 10%.