While I agree that it’s more vague I don’t think using a word like fit always suggest bullshit. Someone with strong asthma and reduced lung function might have a BMI and bodyfat percentage that otherwise correspond to being fit but they still aren’t fit according to the common meaning of fit.
There are goodhearting interventions such as fat removal that clearly help with BMI and bodyfat while increasing the average size of fat cells which happens to be bad and makes people less fit.
If you find yourself or others using deliberately vague language around a topic it means there is something you can’t say.
The same goes for only allowing precise language. If you only allow precise language you prevent people from pointing to goals like being fit that they don’t know how to operationalize well. This leads to metrics that then get goodharted without leading to what the person who wants to be fit actually wants.
While I agree that it’s more vague I don’t think using a word like fit always suggest bullshit. Someone with strong asthma and reduced lung function might have a BMI and bodyfat percentage that otherwise correspond to being fit but they still aren’t fit according to the common meaning of fit.
There are goodhearting interventions such as fat removal that clearly help with BMI and bodyfat while increasing the average size of fat cells which happens to be bad and makes people less fit.
The same goes for only allowing precise language. If you only allow precise language you prevent people from pointing to goals like being fit that they don’t know how to operationalize well. This leads to metrics that then get goodharted without leading to what the person who wants to be fit actually wants.