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Costs of BMI Profiling

In Bacon and Aphramor's paper, "Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a paradigm Shift," Dr. Burgard contributed the following analysis using Wildman et al.'s data:


Costs of BMI Profiling Table



Visual chart of accuracy of sorting by BMI

Chart: Cost of BMI profiling

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