conditioning is deciphered from some external criteria-yes
Yes, and it does not include merely separations and striations, but also grain, somthing that Dorian displayed to a much higher degree than Coleman.
bf and water levels at low levels constitutes conditioning-yes
Yes, and Ronnie's superior separations are no indication of superior conditioning, since different Human Beings show different levels of separations at the same bodyfat and water levels. Get it?
sep,cuts,striations and hardness increase as bf ans water decrease in everyone-yes
Yes, but not to the same degree, meaning that you can't infer bodyfat and water levels accurately from that. And by the way, Dorian was harder.
therefore the obsevable criteria are the above since they are the by-products of low water and bf.
Wrong! They are the by-products of low bofyfat and water, but the bodybuilder with the greatest cuts not always has the lowest fat and water levels, so your theory goes down the drain. Sorry. Dorian's low bodyfat and water levels were expressed through extraordinary grain, not separations.
thus judges must infer who is more conditioned based on the above variables.
So can they infer the bodyfat and water percentages of bodybuilders by looking at them?

Bodybuilding is to some extent illusion, so a bodybuilder with superior cuts can give the impressio that he's more conditioned than others who have less. If you did a hydrostatic weightig of the more cut bodybuilder, would he turn out to have a lower fat and water level than the less cut ones? Not necessarily.

nothing i said is wrong. its actually common sense. the person who is harder is considered better conditioned. and is the more striated, the more cut.
Wrong. The person who's harder is not always the most striated and separated. Dorian wasn't as separated as most of his competitors, yet all of them admitted that he was the most coditioned bodybuilder ever. How do you explain that?
a guy at 20% and 5% will have different levels of the above factors, with the guy at 5 being more seperated,cut,harder etc. this is common sense also.
Ugh...but it's not linear. It's not like a guy has 50 muscular separations at 20% bodyfat and then 100 at 10%. Ergo, you cannot infer bodyfat levels based on number of separations because there's no mathematical relationship between them.

because we know they correlate positively we can infer the level of water and bf from sep,cuts etc. also, we could predict that the person at 3% bf will have more of the above criteria then a person at 20. this prediction is true. the variability does not matter, its not an exact sport. they can and do infer conditioning which is an imaginary thing to begin with on the above factors.
Wrong. A guy will have more at 3% than at 20% because that's a very large difference. Will he have more separations at 3% than at 5%? Not necessarily. His number of separations may stabilize at 5% bodyfat and then only striations may increase, or the texture of the skin acquires a harder appearance, etc. And yes, the judges might look at a bodybuilder with more separations and deem him better conditioned. Will they deem him more conditioned because he has less bodyfat and water? No. Will they deem him more conditioned because he looks like he has less fat and water? Yes. Again, illusion. My beef with you is that you tried to argue that Ronnie had lower fat and water levels based on more separations, which, I'm sorry to say, is frankly idiotic. Unless you can disprove my conjecture that Ronnie can be more separated than Dorian while still having more bodyfat and water, then we have nothing to discuss.
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