No it was sarcasm. Cause better opportunities in light of the pandemic, and an article highlighting lowest paid workers benefitted the most ? Sounds like people were taken advantage of. I didn’t read the article but I assumed the article says because of legislation passed during the pandemic - the lowest paid workers actually made more and my point was oh? they got what they were supposed to get all along ???

Don't be fooled by the UK, public transport in the UK is awful.

The logo must always travel at a 45deg vector to the screen.

Otherwise I would expect the corner to be green.

Could we be seeing a granularity thing?

Hmm yes it seems the logo only ever seems to bounce when it reaches an edge. Yes very interesting

You must have missed the word "extinction". It doesn't matter how happy and healthy we can raise people to be if the upshot is ultimately no people.

We do it in North America too... a cookie for the correct guess...

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When you take error margins, it gets even more telling. Alabama has the highest margin of error (and by a decent margin, +/- 1.9%, next would be KY/AZ at 1.4). It's error range overlaps with the majority of the error ranges of other states. The only state it doesn't overlap with, where Alabama is the lower range, is California (DC, too, but that's not a state.).

Again there are always outliers. That is why you don't just use one method. But it is clear to me looking back that I was lying to myself about my health and weight. Many, many people are. I know the things I said about BMI and I did that because I didn't want to face my own issues. It was easier to think that BMI was BS then to actually look at it seriously and use it as just one way to assess your health. If you are the outlier then you just use something else.

> then you will know that all which applied are ok with those details

hahaha, good one

> just fuck off with that one

You obviously never hired. You would not believe the things people do in the first interview. Most common, not even showing up. Being condescending to our female recruiter. Obviously lied in their CV. No work permit. Super shitty internet. Not tech savy enough to open a zoom call. Not listening to anything the recruiter says and discussing unrelated stuff with their friends during the interview? Not able to speak at least acceptable level of english. Trying to flirt with the recruiter.

Most people don’t make it past the first 15 min screening call for absolutely obvious reasons.

That makes some sense to me, some outlying body types can throw the data (although I’m given pause given that some of those outliers include entire ethnicities).

But even given more accurate testing we can all observe that some larger people are more active and eat more healthily than many skinnier people.

Given that conclusion, just how useful is body size as a measure of health?

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Thanks for the detailed response. I find the area really interesting since I grew up in an environment where BMI and the dangers of being “overweight” were totally unchallenged.

However the “fuzziness” around this topic always bothered me. Playing rugby, almost every player on my team would be classed as either “Obese” or “morbidly obese” (especially if they were POC’s) despite being high-level athletes. Meanwhile my skinny stoner friends who sat around playing guitar hero all day were classed as being “healthy”, based on a metric that even it’s proponents agree makes no sense. I would say everyone has similar stories of larger people being healthier than many skinny people.

The fussiness extends to the outcomes too, since obesity is only a co-morbidity and also doesn’t apply in all cases it’s easy to say a “fat”person’s weight contributed to a heart attack when that either may not have been the case at all, or may have been a contributing factor but not the actual cause. It may be just as accurate in these situations to suggest that the added stress of being left handed contributed to a heart attack.

This very much sounds like I’m making a very specific argument but what you’re really hearing is my brain melting as it tries to decide between two conclusions:

1. Obesity IS the major health risk I’ve been led to believe despite the “fuzziness” in the data and observable conclusions.
2. Activists are correct when they say that all the data starts from the point that “fat is bad” and works backwards to justify that conclusion.

TL:DR I’m too dumb and my brain hurts.

Rofl the year: 700,000, Winds of Winter is releases

Sounds about right.

There is also a lot of advantages to older parents though. Fewer social and emotional dilemmas for the child, more likely to make better progress in language development, older parents are better at setting boundaries resulting in less behavioral issues and the list goes on.

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That is pretty, but it does not contain the really far future (10^100 years until all black holes have evaporated). I have even seen some models go for different futures up to 10^(10^76) years out.

This same irony can be applied to open borders policies. So many of the folks who promote open border policies also promote low cost housing, totally disregarding the notion of global demand. It’s like they cannot comprehend that uncontrolled population growth could also cause an uncontrolled increase in the price of housing.

Wild guess, probably lack of readily accessibility to healthy food -- and hence they're just "stuck" with unhealthy chain food. Best to check the correlation with the existence of healthy chain food (Chipotle, CoreLife, etc) then overlay it and see that it doesn't land most in the red area.

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This looks like one of those "you can't look at this image correctly" images. Like the ones that always look like they're moving?

Yeah, this one is weird. If I look straight at it, I can't see the dark red lattice pattern, but if I look away I can see it.

yes sure, CV checks happens before anyways. Cutting corners in one of the big interviews and then missing something big is way more expensive than the hour for one or two people. If you hire the wrong person you can easily lose 2-3 months until you notice, let go, rehire. Plus cultural cost if people started liking the miss hire.

Same in Italy

It isn't flawed for most people. What most people see as a flaw is that BMI doesn't work for aberrations. So you are a body builder that BMI says is obese when you are 10% body fat. But very few people are bodybuilders.
That is why there is a range of weight for each section. And there are many other ways to measure your health. You can take measurements for example. Or use hip to waist ratio But take it from a guy that said that BMI was BS for much of their adult life that I was wrong. For most people it is a good guideline. I said that because I didn't want to face the fact that I was overweight from the time I was 25 on.

Very interesting OP, well done, mine's about 32 and I live in Amsterdam not super far away, checks out more or less with Paris