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So you're more healthy than your siblings because you're larger? (like you said; they aren't malnourished.)
by Dewie 12y ago
So you're more healthy than your siblings because you're larger? (like you said; they aren't malnourished.)
- msandford 12y agoSize was a great heuristic for health for the entire history of the world up until maybe 50 years ago. If everyone's growth is stunted some to malnutrition then the biggest people are the least malnourished. It doesn't hold as much these days but it still "feels" right and useful.
- wavefunction 12y agoLike many statistical tools, the height charts doctors use are gaussian distributions and the inferences drawn from where an individual falls on that distribution do not boil down to "bigger === better."