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They refrain from specifying a healthy range. As for whether or not RFM is supposed to correspond to %BodyFat; it sort of reads that way but they never clearly specify. and elsewhere they state Given the wording and that the numbers sync up it does sort of feel like RFM is meant to approximate %BodyFat, at least more…
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True, BMI is a proxy measure of body fat; so actually knowing your %body fat is much better/accurate. The problem is most people don't know that value; much less do what it takes to get it measured accurately as they progress. So they end up using BMI. BMI has a fairly strong positive correlation with body fat so feel free…
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And BODYFAT only has 3 Underweight normal and obese. Normal is often subdivided into Athletic fit and acceptable. is literally contradicted by But if someone is NOT OBESE per Bodyfat, then they are normal two categories or three? Since 3, still not averaged and still impossible to make an accurate determination of bmi…
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No, you don't average them either. BMI has three categories normal, overweight, and obese. To calculate an actual error rate you'd need to know the number of people identified as underweight and weren't, people identified as normal and weren't, the number of people identified as overweight and weren't, and the number of…
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jdlobb already went with a more thorough analysis of the data. So I'll focus on something simple. 17.3+19.9=37.2% incorrect for women 31.6+46.1=77.7% incorrect for men What you did above? Is quite simply not how numbers work. Take women, 17.3% of women who were identified as obese were not obese. 19.9% of women listed as…
