Lots of people angry about this article: https://gma.yahoo.com/school-tells-tiny-girl-her-body-mass-index-191006800--abc-news-wellness.html … But nobody seems to have bothered to check the arithmetic!
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The real story: 1) Girl's school fucked up the calculation. 2) Nobody at the school reality-checked it.
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3) Parents, reporter, quoted sources kind-of reality-checked it, but couldn't be arsed to actually touch the numbers.
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@St_Rev Barbie says "Math is hard!" -
@random_eddie Note however that I am substantially wrong about this. -
@St_Rev Ah, yes, I was about to tell you that. :) I'm slowly catching up.
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@St_Rev The CDC has different overweight/underweight BMI levels for kids versus adults, and on the kid's scale the CDC does call her over. -
@thatcks Yes, I found an article that didn't bury crucial information and noted it afterward. -
@St_Rev Oh oops. I guess this is a consequence of me reading old tweets to catch up. -
@thatcks it's understandable, had to choose between deleting the tweets and leaving them up -
@St_Rev I looked at the replies to your first tweet, but didn't actually read ahead in your tweet-stream for non-reply stuff.
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@St_Rev The CDC child/teen online BMI calculator is here: http://nccd.cdc.gov/dnpabmi/Calculator.aspx … ; says BMI 17.9 is 86th percentile at the kid's gen. age. -
@thatcks plz read the next few tweets in my stream
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