Wii Fit calls kids fat, lol.
PostPosted:Sat May 17, 2008 4:50 pm
by Flip
PostPosted:Sat May 17, 2008 10:20 pm
by SineSwiper
Funny. I mean this in all seriousness, but what about big boned people? Isn't BMI going to throw that off, too?
PostPosted:Sun May 18, 2008 11:43 am
by Tessian
SineSwiper wrote:Funny. I mean this in all seriousness, but what about big boned people? Isn't BMI going to throw that off, too?
There is no such thing as "big boned people", they're just "big".
PostPosted:Sun May 18, 2008 1:16 pm
by Kupek
There really is no such thing as "big-boned people." But the BMI is broken; average BMI is useful for looking at a population, but not an individual person. It's just dividing the height and weight, so it has no information you can't find by looking in a mirror.
Since it naively divides height and weight, it's not useful for athletes; it doesn't account for muscle mass. At 6', ~190lbs., my BMI is 25.8, which is "overweight," and is clearly wrong.