I think that the number of fatties trying to be thinnies might balance things out.

Thing that concerns me, though? That vast middle ground of “don’t give a damns” and those with no reason to care, in other words, those who are just naturally healthy. All too much of our data about human health and behavior stems from studying the outliers and not the center-of-mass. You don’t have a problem, why bring the issue up?

FitBit data might be useful, but I think you would have to do some truly random selection, and then probably take steps to ensure that those random sample subjects actually used the damn things.

I think that when (and,if…) we ever manage to wire the general population for sound, so to speak, there are going to be some huge surprises in terms of what we considered “normal”… And, really isn’t. Both in terms of physical norms and behavioral.

This is NOT representative of the general population. (To be PC: Worldwide.)

I’m way out of the norm for every listed category, it seems…

Oddly, when I was in junior high, we had to take and log our heart rates every day for a week in science class. It was usually 100-120 then.