BMI is a crock statistic.
It is convenient but built on bad ideas from a century ago.
When I was still long haul truck driving, I changed companies.
I had just passed a DOT mandated physical two months earlier, but because I was changing companies another one was needed.
I passed with flying colors, even though I was 15 pounds overweight.
Another fella, same height as me, flunked the physical because of the BMI.
Only problem was, he constantly lifted weights and was extremely fit.
All the extra muscle put him WAY over the BMI.
They took him to a doctor who certified his weight as due to “extreme fitness due to bodybuilding “.
The lunacy.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Agreed. There was a research report done in the late 60's correlating height and weight to percentage fat, which appears to be much more accurate than the standard BMI calculation, at least for men.
In addition, another report indicates that women have 10.8% more body fat compared to men for equivalent BMI's.