Do You Believe in Fairies, Unicorns, or the BMI?
Bad Math, Bad Thinking: the BMI and DNA Identification Revisited
The section titled “BMI Rant Revisited” has some additional mathematical and historical insight left out of the previous article.
These two essays talk about what the BMI, body mass index, its origins, and its use. It is not uncommon for statistical findings and models to be misused or overused by people who do not understand them and are looking for easy answers.
