“The body mass index has long been criticized as a flawed indicator of health. A replacement has been gaining support: the body roundness index.” Article unfortunately doesn’t give the freaking formula for chrissakes; it’s “364.2 − 365.5 × √(1 − [waist circumference in centimeters / 2π]2 / [0.5 × height in centimeters]2), according to the formula developed by Thomas et al.10”

  • @RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works
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    101 month ago

    Height selection on metric side has jumps of up to 3 centimeters lmao.

    Too lazy to look, but given 1 inch = 2.54 cm, my guess is the tool is written in inches, and just rounds those values to the nearest whole cm, thus alternating between 2 & 3 cm increments.

    • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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      41 month ago

      Don’t Americans deal with differences smaller than 1 inch when it comes to height, is it just 2 footies 7 incherinos? I’m so used to it being per cm.

      Tbh I’ve never before seen a dropdown selector for height before either. It’s always just fill in thing.

      • AatubeOP
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        41 month ago

        They don’t. At most just 1/4 inch sometimes.

        • Clay_pidgin
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          41 month ago

          Partial inches are only used by people insecure about their height. “I’m 5’7.25” “, naw bud, you’re 5’7”.

          • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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            31 month ago

            I was thinking that this was a bit like with age. Someone telling you online that they’re “25 and a half”, yeah I bet you are lol.

            But to me 3cm difference especially in this sort of calculations just seems surprisingly big.

            • Clay_pidgin
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              11 month ago

              In imperial, it’s in one-inch increments, which is typical. Must have been written in inches and translated for the rest of the world.

      • tiredofsametab
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        21 month ago

        Maybe to a half inch, but it’s not super popular (except for kids who ALWAYS are proud of that half inch they grew in x period of time). At least, that was the case before I moved to the sanity of metricland.