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who created the scoring metric and what is the basis for that? when i go to [0] and change the default 3 drinks a week to 0 drinks a week my score drops from 1
by simbolit 13y ago
who created the scoring metric and what is the basis for that?
when i go to [0] and change the default 3 drinks a week to 0 drinks a week my score drops from 100 to 90, that is a full 10%. Why? Acetaldehyde and acetic acid, both metabolites of ethanol are rather potent toxins. I would expect a better rating from keeping toxins out of my body, not a worse one. Then i changed the number of cigarettes from 0.5 a day to 0 a day. Nothing changed. Not smoking surely is much better from a health perspective than smoking 3-4 cigarettes each week.
I simply don't get it.
[0] http://www.hscoremixer.org/ http://www.hscoremixer.org/
- notahacker 13y agoThere are some large studies that suggest, counter-intuitive as it may seem, that not drinking alcohol at all seems to have negative side effects on health. It could be down to badly chosen sample populations or ineffective weighting for existing conditions, socioeconomic groups or race, but there is some support for a theory that some units of some forms of alcohol might have positive effects on some groups of humans. And the 0.5 cigarettes a day seems to be a threshold, albeit perhaps too high. I'm more alarmed by the way the score drops if you weigh less than 258 lbs... especially with a 32.5 inch waistline. Edit: there are some neat sliders on that page you can move the "optimum" values and green ranges for acceptable scores on the graphs on the left hand side to develop a saner scoring system.