brazil84 comments on Lifestyle interventions to increase longevity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 28 February 2014 08:37:59PM 5 points [-]

Is body mass a good predictor of risk

BMI is a horrible metric that was never intended to be used for evaluations of individuals (it was supposed to be used for evaluation and comparison of whole populations), is known to scale wrongly with height and basically should just be ignored.

Comment author: brazil84 07 March 2014 11:39:51PM 1 point [-]

BMI is a horrible metric

I recall reading that BMI correctly predicts obesity in 95% of men and 99% of women. Do you disagree with this?