It’s just a method for guestimating how much of a body is lean mass vs fat. There are a few others, such as the Navy method, that are more or less accurate for different body types
yep, that’s what the guess in guestimating means, it was always a statistical approach to solving a problem that requires disecting a person otherwise. That’s why the x ray based scanning is the current state of the art.
It’s just a method for guestimating how much of a body is lean mass vs fat. There are a few others, such as the Navy method, that are more or less accurate for different body types
The current state of the art is DEXA scanning:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5659281/
It was created to estimate the amount of obesity in a population, not on the individual level. It also breaks down for tall and short people.
yep, that’s what the guess in guestimating means, it was always a statistical approach to solving a problem that requires disecting a person otherwise. That’s why the x ray based scanning is the current state of the art.
TIL the guess in guestimating means using tools to describe a population on the individual.
yep, it’s the wrong tool for the job, like measuring planetary distances in football fields.