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We absolute have and use these things. This is why the US army makes you run a mile and counts your pull ups. These things are not measures of your "true physical fitness", they are just data points. But they have extremely high correlation on other fitness metrics so we just measure them and assign a score.

You could very reasonably label the outcome of that test a movement quotient.



For the general population, pullups are just measuring bodyweight.


??? Yeah if you average everyone together. You could say this about every fitness activity that exists.

It doesn't mean you aren't going to see big differences in results when you test it which is why they do it.


You can't say the same thing about everything. If you measured absolute strength the correlation with weight would go the other way!




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