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> The only way this can possibly be correct is if you think that the "correct" weight is whatever the population average happens to be which is just...wild to m
by toast0 2y ago
> The only way this can possibly be correct is if you think that the "correct" weight is whatever the population average happens to be which is just...wild to me.
The medical definition of overweight is basically if you're some number of standard deviations above the average from whenever they ran the stats, so population average = correct weight seems like as reasonable a standard.
- MostlyStable 2y agoI tried to find corroborating sources and couldn't, so take this for what it's worth, but Claude seems to think the cutoffs are based on epedmiological evidence for health impacts at various BMIs, which, even if that _wasn't_ how it was arrived at, seems like a better option.