Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days 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-square24linkfedilinkarrow-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 · 21 days agomessage-square24linkfedilink
minus-square_stranger_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·21 days 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-down2·21 days agoTIL the guess in guestimating means using tools to describe a population on the individual.
minus-square_stranger_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·21 days agoyep, it’s the wrong tool for the job, like measuring planetary distances in football fields.
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.