Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoWas there ever a scientific proof about the BMI scale that it worked? If so in the term of science how come it got discredited so fast? And why not faster?message-squaremessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down19
arrow-up111arrow-down1message-squareWas there ever a scientific proof about the BMI scale that it worked? If so in the term of science how come it got discredited so fast? And why not faster?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square25fedilink
minus-squarezout@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months ago It’s just a method for guestimating how much of a body is lean mass vs fat. It was created to estimate the amount of obesity in a population, not on the individual level. It also breaks down for tall and short people.
minus-square_stranger_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-22 months agoyep, that’s what the guess in guestimating means, it was always a statistical approach to solving a problem that requires disecting a person otherwise. That’s why the x ray based scanning is the current state of the art.
minus-squarezout@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·2 months agoTIL the guess in guestimating means using tools to describe a population on the individual.
minus-square_stranger_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoyep, it’s the wrong tool for the job, like measuring planetary distances in football fields.
It was created to estimate the amount of obesity in a population, not on the individual level. It also breaks down for tall and short people.
yep, that’s what the guess in guestimating means, it was always a statistical approach to solving a problem that requires disecting a person otherwise. That’s why the x ray based scanning is the current state of the art.
TIL the guess in guestimating means using tools to describe a population on the individual.
yep, it’s the wrong tool for the job, like measuring planetary distances in football fields.