this isnt a critique of BMI on the basis of some people are swole its about a failure to extend the lessons of the square cube law to an even more egregious case!!! "why is BMI going up" idk man have you noticed people have gotten taller but their mass has increased cubically
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when Americans are eight feet tall on average everyone will be classified as obese. fools
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daaaaaaang caplan beat me to ithttps://twitter.com/leepavelich/status/1398123530932277254?s=19 …
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i haven't checked my weight in a year not changing
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weight checking is psyop
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dude who came up with it was a mathematicianhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Quetelet …
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sounds like he could have used some experience with the domain (physical world)
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So mass&volume increase as the cube of height. If you make something twice as tall, it weighs 8 times as much. BMI is mass/height^2. So since mass is proportional to height^3, a person who is taller will have a higher BMI, even with the same build.
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Hey it makes sense we just need humans to look like legos
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