TehPers

Reddit makes an anti-user change. In other news, grass is green.

I haven’t been on the site in over a year and nothing since then has convinced me to go back. Maybe I’m lucky that I’m not in any Reddit-only communities, but it could also just be that I treat those communities as though they don’t exist and never had a reason to join one as a result.

From the article:

Western-owned brands manufactured in China, such as BMW and Tesla

Looks like you’re safe buying a Tesla.

If this chart is being used solely to represent BMI of a population and is not actually measuring health, it does seem a bit misleading. At the very least, the other comments do seem to be misinterpreting the chart as being representative of the health of a population.

I’m of course not saying that the US health-wise is any better than the chart represents. Just that as is, the chart is at best useless (except under super niche circumstances) and at worst misleading.

BMI alone is not a good metric for populations, unless you also acknowledge the error rate. This study, for example, found that it was very inaccurate when used as a sole measure of obesity. From the abstract:

Using BMI categories as the main indicator of health, an estimated 74 936 678 US adults are misclassified as cardiometabolically unhealthy or cardiometabolically healthy.

In a population of around 330 million, that is around a 23% misclassification rate.

BMI is not a good measurement of obesity. Atheletes who are hyper muscular can be considered obese by this metric, for example.

I don’t doubt that obesity is bad in the US, but I do hope they used a better metric than BMI to measure it.

I’m also curious what metrics they used to measure obesity.

We’ve been trying to contact you regarding your car’s extended warranty.

I agree, open source devs don’t owe anyone anything (unless they’re accepting commissions or something). Also, generally speaking, being a good developer does not translate to being a good community moderator. There should be no expectation of the latter.