if you had to guess: how many American women are at least 300 pounds?

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[–]TemporarilyDeceased 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The average woman weighs 158lbs. Assuming a standard distribution, a 300lb woman would be approximately 1 standard deviation away putting the number of women 300lb or over at 16% or 26 million women in the United States.

That feels really high to me based on the number of women I see at that weight. So let's look for data:

According to this site, a 300lb woman would be in the 99-98th percentile so perhaps 1.5% or about 2.5 million women. https://dqydj.com/weight-percentile-by-age-calculator/

[–]William_World 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

and on average they are 5'4 so 158 is too fat