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hip hop bunny hop · 04-09-2012, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre

At this point, I think you're cherrypicking examples of people with small frames and too much weight, as an excuse to pour scorn on the examples that exist of people whose frames can properly support that much weight perfectly well without being unhealthy nor unattractive.

Erm, the BMI exists for a reason. The guidelines set by it are not arbitrary; they were established because what is - for the majority of people - healthy and unhealthy fall between these guidelines.

Claiming that the outliers are unhealthy is not cherrypicking; it's using averages. Claiming that most outliers are healthy because a minority are healthy outside of its bounds is, however, cherrypicking.

GuitarBizarre · 04-10-2012, 04:35 AM

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Originally Posted by hip hop bunny hop

Erm, the BMI exists for a reason. The guidelines set by it are not arbitrary; they were established because what is - for the majority of people - healthy and unhealthy fall between these guidelines.

Claiming that the outliers are unhealthy is not cherrypicking; it's using averages. Claiming that most outliers are healthy because a minority are healthy outside of its bounds is, however, cherrypicking.

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Lance Armstrong can handle this one for me, you're not worth my time.

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Originally Posted by Dr. Rez

Gb your new avatar is hot stuff, definitely an upgrade from the last one.

Excellent, I'm pretty pleased with it myself

hip hop bunny hop · 04-10-2012, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre

Problems With Bmi | LIVESTRONG.COM

Lance Armstrong can handle this one for me, you're not worth my time.

Eh? How does that article contradict what I said? It stated: The study found that one out of six children who scored normal on the BMI scored a high percentage of body fat. One out of four children labeled as obese by the BMI scored a normal percentage of body fat.
- in other words, for 75% of the children labeled obese.... they were obese by other metrics. The one quarter you're referring to would qualify as outliers. Ditto for the 16.6% who qualified as healthy by the BMI but were shown to have a high percentage of body fat by other tests.

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Originally Posted by Aurora

Eat **** and die mate, it's not like you'll be missed by many.

Wonderful debating style, that.