• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Okay, I’m going to assert that BMI’s potential oversimplification of a few edge cases doesn’t matter here when I point out that this child had a BMI of seventy.

    • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      BMI is a bad, outdated method. But it was used for a reason, which is that it serves as an ok rule-of-thumb for white boys