“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”

  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
    11·
    1 month ago

    Height selection on metric side has jumps of up to 3 centimeters lmao. Makes me doubtful about the accuracy since I’ve never before seen that

    I’m also pretty skinny and it says my BMI and body fat is great but that I’m too round. I don’t even have belly and it is showing me as quite rotund lol. I think there’s something fucky going on with my measurements or about inputting metric into the calculator.

    E: Tried it again and now I’m out of healthy zone for being too lean. Hmm. I’m not sure if I measured wrong or they’re saying I should have a bit of a belly. Which is the sort of medical advice I actually want lol

    • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      1 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
        4·
        1 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.

          • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            4·
            1 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
              3·
              1 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@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                1·
                1 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@fedia.io
          2·
          30 days 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.