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If you do not wear a hat, but are otherwise bundled up when in cold weather, half the heat you lose is from your head.
The trick is not to let non-experts summarize technical papers for you I think, lest they leave out the critical context.
This myth is like the precursor to buzzfeed.
Yeah and I don't think OP's labelling this as a "myth" is really clarifying anything. It's not "true" or "false": it's an overly vague and broad generalization from one study. It's like if someone told you "You eat half of your fat at breakfast". Is that true or false? Well, it depends a lot on which "you" you're talking about and which day you're talking about, but in any case it doesn't make much sense to generalize it into some sort of bizarre universal truth or falsehood.
This is what I always thought the "more heat from your head" thing was about!