The height/weight dilemma
A discussion.

But in cases where the player behind the character does not, what is the best approach to viewing this ICly? Are they considered genetic diseases, is it the norm in the 2100s to be tiny/huge (thanks to biomodifications)?

I understand for some the numbers that chargen pops out can be quite immersion breaking due to how impossible they are with human physiology, but do we excuse this as just advanced technology/the future, or would these individuals still be considered an anomaly?

There are absolutely some height/weight combos that are frankly unnerving to imagine when you consider those proportions are most likely to be comparable to a child's, or as some have already mentioned an extremely stunted and malnourished adult who would be too sickly and weak to function, let alone behave as a normal (often even attractive) character running around as if nothing's wrong.

Is there any possibility of fixing the wonky values so people don't roll out of chargen like this? And/or, encouraging those who do to xhelp and have them adjusted accordingly?

I have to assume they're an artifact of players once being able to play as children.

My money is that our actual weight is randomized based on height/build (X), and that when it was programmed to roll, it was programmed to roll in Metric, however somewhere someone thought that X was programmed to roll in Imperial, so converted from Imperial pounds down to Metric. Hence why everyone weighs so little because we have Metric weights converted into an imaginary Metric.

Though I have absolutely zero evidence, I'm willing to bet if you convert your character's weight back up from imaginary Metric back up to real Metric (multiply by 2.2) the weight would be more believable in terms of BMI.

TIL this is true! Very handy to know, thank you for mentioning it. I dug up the relevant Town Hall:

Fengshui says loudly, "You can put a service request in if your height/weight don't match what you intended, 
but please do this only if it's a really big deal, like you are showing as average but your character is def 
not average height or weight. We may deny it, but we can probs make the update for you. Also submit the issue 
as an @Bug so we can look into correcting it."
Johnny says loudly, "its a pain to manually change correctly"
Fengshui says loudly, "Yeah, so please don't ask if it's not really important."

I'm of the opinion that just avoiding this by adjusting chargen a little is the best way forward and that any super unusual weight/heights should be the exceptions/by request instead as well.

I know this isn't the best place for this, but additionally, skintone options should show what text color they actually become when you choose them.