Watching the first angle on the Youtube video, I couldn’t tell what happened. When a dude dunks and you think, “the fuck just happened?” probably a good indication that something legitimately sweet occurred.

Haha. It is bizarre.

expecting that to constitute some sort of argument why it should never be used, when it just isn’t.

What makes you think I’m not familiar with false negatives and positives? They’re still a problem. They are type I and II ERRORS. If your diagnostic technique is resulting in a lot of them, it’s not a great diagnostic technique.

You know that happens because a certain segment of Muslims are willing to murder people for making fun of their goofy plagiarizing prophet? Are you suggesting that this is the path Christians should follow?

God, all the sibling rivalry makes me sad.

You want the Christians to be more like radical Islam, then?

Nah, it’s really bad data. It fails in both directions - categorizing overweight and obese people who aren’t and missing actual obese people (when body fat is considered):

And yet you conclude with confidence that it must be his superior attitude that drove the dickishness.

Oh, I’m aware of that fallacy. I also am aware that rather than engaging in a conversation, you’re just spitting up inapplicable jargon or phrases. Just world fallacy has nothing to do with it, and you’ve consistently made these trivial little errors based on a total misunderstanding of the nature of the interaction.

Find me an insurance company using adjusted BMI - just that stupid height2 calculation - and I’ll show a company that’s behind the science. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised at people using bad data, so I’ll grant you that.

First of all, read what I wrote: “If you’re strong and in shape, BMI will always make it look like you’re in trouble.”

You are bad at understanding the reason assholes lash out on the internet. No one who is legitimately satisfied or feels confident about their health starts randomly calling people fat.

Possibly fantastic if reflective of reality. I would be surprised if any actuary is utilizing BMI without significant modification to compensate for the factors (and others) that I listed.

Man, that would be nice to play co-op.

Yeah, exactly zero change happens if she abides by the more restrictive rules she would like to implement while whichever insane-ass Republican supplicant at the feet of ancient, gruesome money-hoarders like Adelson and the Koch brothers spends a billion dollars slamming her.

Nope, I do. He feels bad about his situation, so he lashes out at others.

BMI exists because 200 years ago a guy who knew very little about health - even by the primitive standards of the time, he was a mathematician - came up with a quick and easy formula to determine the obesity rate in the population. It’s a bizarre arbitrary formula that, for example, squares height in order to come up…

Whoa, sick burn, dude. You went right for where it counts. The last time I suffered so mightily at the hands of a knobby, twiggy mess was when an oak branch fell on the hood of my car.

Fail trolling. I think you meant that comment for a video game forum somewhere.