Activists spat on a chart illustrating this concept at a protest in London two weeks before the 2012 Olympics. Using data from French and Scottish conscripts, the Belgian “social physicist” Adolphe Quetelet theorized this concept. (15[2])The ponderal index was the worst, whereas this metric was the best, out of three metrics evaluated (15[1])in the 1972 study by Ancel Keys that coined its name. Most (15[1])providers of gender-affirming surgery dubiously set a (*) cutoff involving this metric. (-5[1])In 1995, (-5[1])the WHO endorsed the use of this metric to classify children, stoking fear about an American (-5[1])epidemic. (10[1])The term “class III” is now preferred to “morbid” (-5[2])in describing (-5[2])those (-5[1])in the highest (-5[2])range of, for 10 points, what ratio of body weight divided (0[1])by height (10[1])squared? (10[3])■END■ (10[5])