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      18 days ago

      It’s just a method for guestimating how much of a body is lean mass vs fat.

      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.

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        18 days ago

        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.

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          18 days ago

          TIL the guess in guestimating means using tools to describe a population on the individual.

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            yep, it’s the wrong tool for the job, like measuring planetary distances in football fields.