Why does BMI have units of kg/m^2 when we are three dimensional? Wouldn’t kg/m^3 or g/cm^3 be more accurate?
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it’s not really a unit of density, it’s just a mathematical formula that we’ve found correlates decently with someone’s health (specifically to be used as a rough marker for obesity). so yeah in theory if it was density then that would make sense, but the unit just follows the formula which is weight/height^2
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