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rKarpinski 2 hours ago

This is a common misconception. BMI while an ok population metric, for individual's the biggest problem with is its poor sensitivity - it fails to classify people as obese who are obese.

Using your 6 3" male as an example, they are significantly more likely to be clinically obese (using waist circumference, body fat % etc) at a weight lower than BMI cut-off of 240 lbs.

sn9 44 minutes ago | parent [-]

It only fails to classify people with excess body fat who are in the healthy weight range.

It's really good at catching people who are obese who are overweight.