While you are technically correct, that shouldn’t function as an excuse to let oneself get overweight. My BMI was just measured a couple weeks ago to be 23.7 (between 18 and 25 is “normal”), and even after you account for the fact that I carry some muscle thanks to a year of strength training, I’m still visibly chubby and the nurse told me to lose weight. I agree with her on this.
Yes, that’s my point. However, I’m abnormal: the most common use of ignoring BMI is to let oneself remain overweight against the evidence of its health detriments.
I have not run a statistically significant experiment, no, but I have simpler never heard of anyone even ignoring their BMI when it’s a reason to eat more and exercise less. You could say that I have more than a completely baseless prior but less than a completely well-evidenced posterior.
I have simpler never heard of anyone even ignoring their BMI when it’s a reason to eat more and exercise less.
Huh? You’re making no sense.
The great majority of people ignore their BMI because they don’t care. A notable number ignores their BMI because they have better metrics. I ignore my BMI because I think that it’s a silly number that tells me nothing that I don’t already know.
While you are technically correct, that shouldn’t function as an excuse to let oneself get overweight. My BMI was just measured a couple weeks ago to be 23.7 (between 18 and 25 is “normal”), and even after you account for the fact that I carry some muscle thanks to a year of strength training, I’m still visibly chubby and the nurse told me to lose weight. I agree with her on this.
But what you’re doing is exactly ignoring the BMI: the BMI is supposed to be normal, but you think you should lose weight.
Yes, that’s my point. However, I’m abnormal: the most common use of ignoring BMI is to let oneself remain overweight against the evidence of its health detriments.
That’s a non sequitur.
To quote you from another post
You don’t know that. Asserting an opinion and describing reality are two different things.
I have not run a statistically significant experiment, no, but I have simpler never heard of anyone even ignoring their BMI when it’s a reason to eat more and exercise less. You could say that I have more than a completely baseless prior but less than a completely well-evidenced posterior.
Huh? You’re making no sense.
The great majority of people ignore their BMI because they don’t care. A notable number ignores their BMI because they have better metrics. I ignore my BMI because I think that it’s a silly number that tells me nothing that I don’t already know.