Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton charged 40-year-old Damien O'Brien and his wife, 41-year-old Jessica O'Brien, with second-degree murder following the death of their 7-year-old son Casper. The boy was 50.5
Okay, I’m going to assert that BMI’s potential oversimplification of a few edge cases doesn’t matter here when I point out that this child had a BMI of seventy.
Okay, I’m going to assert that BMI’s potential oversimplification of a few edge cases doesn’t matter here when I point out that this child had a BMI of seventy.
BMI is a bad, outdated method. But it was used for a reason, which is that it serves as an ok rule-of-thumb for white boys
It’s fine as an arbitry metric used to evaluate the same population over time.
It can be used to locate/relativise an individual member of that population within that same population.
It can’t be used to simply define any given individual in isolation. But it still is.
Such an extreme outlier is still a valid evaluation in the case though… but only in that the BMI value is extreme, not it’s specific value.