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BMI is only intended to measure health at a population level, it's too crude to have any useful input on personal health. And height isn't static if you're an
by minikites 12y ago
BMI is only intended to measure health at a population level, it's too crude to have any useful input on personal health.
And height isn't static if you're an adolescent.
- scoot 12y agoExactly - and yet BMI is one of the metrics included. Meanwhile a manual input is required, despite having been provided with the relevant data.
- king_jester 12y agoPerhaps this is a concession so that people who do not want to work with BMI do not have to by default. As minikites says, on a personal health basis BMI isn't very useful so folks may want to skip it altogether.