people are continually amazed at how BMI continues to be a thing despite its obvious massive failings. well, let me clear that up. it isn't a thing despite its failings, it's a thing because of them
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Why you don't think it would be enough in this counterfactual scenario? I think the feedback loop is not tight enough in this case: working doctors (who maybe benefit from metric imperfection) don't decide on the metric. People who decide on the metric aren't directly rewarded
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doctors aren't monsters; some would notice that the big metric is nonsense and build consensus for one almost as simple and much better (shoulder to shoulder measurement and adjusted ranges are all it would take) if doing so weren't professional defection
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