Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity
brown9-2: These datapoints are a little scary:- Your BMI is 26, which means you are Overweight- Your BMI is lower than 42% of people who submitted this survey- Your BMI is lower than 63% of 27 year olds- Your BMI is lower than 39% of people from news.ycombinator.com
Sounds as if the people sampled skew young and overweight.Tangentially, is there a better metric for something like this besides BMI? I recall some people having issue with BMI as a measurement, since it doesn't account for what your weight is composed of (fat vs muscle content).edit: for anyone else interested in the shortcomings of BMI, wikipedia seems to have a good summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index#Limitations_and...