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by phil21 590 days ago
You know if you are a BMI outlier. It's not interesting to discuss outliers as they are rare by definition.

BMI is a fine metric for describing a population's general health when it comes to weight. The actual reason the metric exists.

There are exceedingly few folks with 10% body fat and a BMI of 30. They tend to be clustered around professional athlete or bodybuilder circles. Again, not interesting to discuss these things outside of niche circles. Those that are outliers know already, due to the work they put in to be such.

No one is walking around with a BMI of 30 and happening to accidentally be at a healthy weight due to low body fat percentage/high lean muscle mass and not knowing it.