TL;DR; Reagan changed policy and attitudes, and immigrants tend to be shorter

  • _Mantissa@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Obvs I don’t know for sure but it seems like the only data they collected was self reported height and weight. They probably used the standard BMI calculation to get obesity which, among it’s many other problems, does not account for muscle mass. Not that I think every cop is a body builder but every body builder would be obese if that’s how you calculated it.