Let your voice be heard

[Wayne Riddle]

Adaptations in humans for assessing physical strength from the voice. (http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/06/14/rspb.2010.0769.full)

[Ian Kovtunovich]

Interesting that they found that the ability to detect height or weight based on voice was not evolutionarily important, whereas the ability to detect strength was "vitally important." An interesting neuro-acoustical evolutionary refutation of BMI as a worthwhile metric.

[Wayne Riddle]

The BMI needs to be shot a dozen times, stabbed two dozen, wrapped up in chains and tossed into a river.

[Bloodninja666]

Where does Mike Tyson fit into the picture?

[Jamie J. Skibicki]

"The BMI needs to be shot a dozen times, stabbed two dozen, wrapped up in chains and tossed into a river. "

Or just used correctly.

[Patrick]

Where does Mike Tyson fit into the picture?
Right under Lou Ferrigno. (cheap shot)

[Tfin]

Right under Lou Ferrigno. (cheap shot)

Oh that is a cheap shot but that was funny as hell about Mike Tyson.

[knkavo]

Where does Mike Tyson fit into the picture?

And what about squeaky Ronnie Coleman?

There are quite a few short skinny bassos around.

[ColoWayno]

Maybe it has more to do with inflection or delivery than pitch...? Could be... or this could all be BS too.

[Wayne Riddle]

Or just used correctly.

Yes, but that is unlikely to happen, especially when applied to an individual rather then a population.

Top 10 Reasons Why The BMI Is Bogus (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106268439)

[Wayne Riddle]

Where does Mike Tyson fit into the picture?

An outlier. :)

[foosion]

Or just used correctly.
Just what is the correct use?


Yes, but that is unlikely to happen, especially when applied to an individual rather then a population.
AFAIK, it "works" for populations because there are a lot more fat people than fit people in the population. If the population consisted of fit people, would BMI work for any useful purpose?


Top 10 Reasons Why The BMI Is Bogus (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106268439)
Nice

[TomF]

There are quite a few short skinny bassos around.Heh. I was singing bass parts semi-pro with provincial orchestras and opera companies when I weighed #135.

[ColoWayno]

An engineering analysis also shows that it is primarily upper-body strength that determines the hitting power of the weaponry available to human ancestors (Brues 1959).

And we know science... and engineering analysis can't be wrong...
And if this is true maybe this is because you didn't have gym bro's back then just hanging out at the bench press and doing curlz... so upper body strength was also correlated with lower body strength because they always used them together... hmm?

Does this stuff drive anyone else crazy?

[ColoWayno]

— Flexed bicep circumference (M = 33.5 cm, s.d. = 3.5). Approximately 50 per cent of the variance in weight-lifting strength among male college students is tracked by flexed bicep circumference (Sell et al. 2009a).

More goodness.