Hey sucks for her, but remember to run this one by people next time you're in a fight with anti-science crackpots. You could set the entire history of maths into a bonfire and some random nutritionist could rebuild it all tomorrow. Epistemology, man.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago

Just wait until you see what the field of sports medicine does!

It’s like a constant speed run of rejected statistics research.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 25 points 2 days ago

Yeah, it’s embarrassing, but it’s also a compliment. The Babylonians were damn smart. Independently recreating their work is still pretty impressive.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 days ago

They teach this at GCSE 💀

It's related to integration, even. Are they next going to tell me they worked out how to get the exact area under the curve by integrating it between two coordinates?

[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai%27s_model

[–] grue@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Do nutritionists somehow not have to take calculus in undergrad (or high school, for that matter)?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 2 days ago

IIRC she named it not after herself, but her parents or grandparents...who of course share her name.

[–] evujumenuk@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

See? Newton and Leibniz weren't that special after all!!11

In the end, still better than cutting out the area under the curve and weighing it. Isn't that what nutritionists did before Tai?

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wouldn't have thought of weighing party off a physical model. That's really clever.

Impractical obviously, but clever.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

It's just like the water displacement method for finding the volume of an irregularly-shaped object. No biggie.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago

I’m very surprised this got published before anyone mentioned this was a well known and old technique