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Old 06-02-2008, 10:43 PM   #77 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Simon C View Post
Well it says "mean", so the mean FFMI was 25.4. So you calculated that to be about 175-180lbs for somebody 5"9 tall, 185lbs of LBM isn't that much of a stretch from the average they found, so even according to this study, it would be possible, just better than average.
I'll know more when I get the full paper and can see the data set, but a mean of 25.4 from a sample of 20, along with their conclusions, does not lead me to believe they found any significant statistical outliers here.

Really this is grasping at straws.
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