BMI is a horrible metric that was never intended to be used for evaluations of individuals (it was supposed to be used for evaluation and comparison of whole populations), is known to scale wrongly with height and basically should just be ignored.
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.
BMI is a horrible metric that was never intended to be used for evaluations of individuals (it was supposed to be used for evaluation and comparison of whole populations), is known to scale wrongly with height and basically should just be ignored.
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.
I recall reading that BMI correctly predicts obesity in 95% of men and 99% of women. Do you disagree with this?