fristislurper

I see this sentiment quite often, is it field-specific? Cause in physics and chemistry, starting at 0 is really not required…

In this case, the zero value is really not relevant (since no-one would ever have it anyway). It would just hide the signifcant drift over time. A good scaling here would be based on some clinically relevant interval I guess.

Actually, there are two sports. Speed skating and Speed skating but with violence.

This is definitely it. I am tall (1.94 m) and in proportion, and my equally tall friend who is skinny gets all the tall-person jokes when we go somewhere together.