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WildMtnHoney wrote:Before I even consider kindly (or not) responding to a poll that I've been yelled at about, I'd like to know what the poll is polling regarding. What is the point? Are you polling who is overweight on a board of people who continue to chat about CPAP for years, or just this week? Why? Also, you do realize correlation can never be determined to equal causation, without appropriate scientific experimentation, right ?

Poll was set up to determine the 'weight' makeup of people who frequent the forum. The more people who respond honestly to the poll, the more an indicator of the makeup as to weight of the members HERE.

It is a very simple poll, straightforward, easy to answer because it is not based on subjective criteria.

How much credibility one places on BMI is another issue, but it appears it is used as the standard by the established medical community and I see it referenced all over the place.

What damn business is it of yours what our weight is?

Morbius wrote:

Morbius wrote:I did not (and will not) vote...

However, assuming that you had some sort of purpose to this, I chose to (scientifically) exclude myself, as I do not use xPAP and do not have sleep apnea, influenced largely (although not completely) by being in the 99.99 percentile of aerobic fitness (age-corrected).

Thank you, excluding yourself for your reasons stated was appreciated.

Julie wrote:What damn business is it of yours what our weight is?

he's just a troll... but remember, you've been granted foehood by him.

Too bad I missed whatever happened in chat (or not?) Because I don't understand the value of knowing what the highest polled BMI is of people who voluntarily answer a poll yelling at them in this forum will yield. So I've opted to opt out.

WildMtnHoney wrote:Too bad I missed whatever happened in chat (or not?) Because I don't understand the value of knowing what the highest polled BMI is of people who voluntarily answer a poll yelling at them in this forum will yield. So I've opted to opt out.

well, you see, you didn't miss anything, because there is none.

On another note, how many live with their parents, are unemployed, and use psych meds regularly?
What we say reflects on the other members, or lends ballast to someone's preconceived notion.
I voted, but I LIED. Follow my lead, FIB!

chunkyfrog wrote:On another note, how many live with their parents, are unemployed, and use psych meds regularly?
What we say reflects on the other members, or lends ballast to someone's preconceived notion.
I voted, but I LIED. Follow my lead, FIB!

What a great Idea!!! Can we vote more then once? I think not. Maybe I need to get a few aliases so I can do that and really fuck it up.

tedburnsIII wrote:

WildMtnHoney wrote:Before I even consider kindly (or not) responding to a poll that I've been yelled at about, I'd like to know what the poll is polling regarding. What is the point? Are you polling who is overweight on a board of people who continue to chat about CPAP for years, or just this week? Why? Also, you do realize correlation can never be determined to equal causation, without appropriate scientific experimentation, right ?

Poll was set up to determine the 'weight' makeup of people who frequent the forum. The more people who respond honestly to the poll, the more an indicator of the makeup as to weight of the members HERE.

It is a very simple poll, straightforward, easy to answer because it is not based on subjective criteria.

How much credibility one places on BMI is another issue, but it appears it is used as the standard by the established medical community and I see it referenced all over the place.

OK. So how do you intend to analyze your data? You do realize, don't you, that you have no way of knowing whether the response you get are representative of the members of the group? Have you considered that maybe skinny people are more prone to respond to polls? Or maybe the converse? And what about those who chose to mislead in their responses?

It's a poorly designed "experiment" that will lead to an attempt to draw conclusions based on data of unknown AND UNTESTABLE quality. It might be accepted in a grade 5 science fair, but no other credible forum would give the experiment a passing grade.

You can get just as useful data by throwing darts or dice!

DUCK!
Here comes a dart!

Hose_Head wrote:
You can get just as useful data by throwing darts or dice!

Throwing darts - heads or tails. Since most of the people on the forum are American he is getting a standard answer - over 60% are overweight/obese. Nothing illuminating in the poll.

Come ON, anyone who hasn't voted---PREVARICATE!

tedburnsIII wrote:Calculate your BMI here: http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/assess ... lator.html
and then kindly respond to the anonymous poll.

Your identity is not revealed.

Thank you.

No

chunkyfrog wrote:PREVARICATE!

OK, I prevaricated!

I tell ya, after a great dinner, nothing like a good prevarication.

AAMOF, I think I just shrunk 2 belt notches!

Got some photos to post...

...oh damn, dropped the phone...