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Although the BMI is an unscientific way to characterize a person’s nutritional status, it is nonetheless used as a measure of total body fat mass in medical practice and epidemiological studies, not least because it is easy to calculate and document regularly in personal health records.

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In health care terms, you could characterize this as whether or not somebody feels that they see a path towards better health, that they can actually see their way towards getting better health, and that's a very important notion.

How would you characterize the historical significance of what's happened?

And essentially what Bayes did was to provide a mathematical way using probability theory to characterize, describe, the way that scientists find out about the world.

And it's a pool that's too difficult to fully characterize, even by modern methods, and the product looks brown, like this tar here on the left.

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