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Read more about the article BMI vs. body fat %

BMI vs. body fat %

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:19. December 2024
  • Post category:Medicine

In my previous post I discussed commonly found normal distribution in humans. In general, these result from many small independent causes in different directions which when averaged result in a…

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Read more about the article Obesity and the secular decline in testosterone

Obesity and the secular decline in testosterone

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:24. February 2023
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Medicine/Physiology

One thing I didn't address in the last post about the decline of everything manly is that obesity is a potential cause of secular declines in testosterone. That's because the…

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Criticism of BMI and simple IQ tests – a conceptual link?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:29. November 2014
  • Post category:Critical thinking / meta-thinking/Medicine

BMI (body mass index) is often used a proxy for fat percent or similar measures. This is for a good reason: So, the mean correlation across age groups and gender…

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