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My point is that BMI is ridiculously easy for nearly everyone to measure. Your point is that a better measurement can be made if everyone goes out and buys som
by streptomycin 14y ago
My point is that BMI is ridiculously easy for nearly everyone to measure.
Your point is that a better measurement can be made if everyone goes out and buys some new thing and takes some new measurement.
That seems to be in agreement with my point.
> since official US government policy defines obesity in terms of BMI, technically, BMI doesn't misreport obesity
The US government defining something doesn't make it true.
>What it does is fail to correspond to true body fat percentage in any meaningful way.
It is very meaningful. It's much better than a random guess.
- dredmorbius 14y agoHow are you positing people measure their weight and height without, you know, like, a scale, and, um, a tape measure? As many people in the fitness/bodybuilding field will tell you, eyeball estimates of bodyfat are in fact pretty bloody accurate. If you're interested in equipment costs, I could look up eyeballs on Amazon as I did for tape measures.
- streptomycin 14y agoMost people know their weight and height already. And again, I agree that there are more accurate measurements, but they are all significantly more complicated. This time you are suggesting training people to visually estimate body fat percentage. That could work. But it's a heck of a lot more complicated than telling someone to type their height and weight into a website.