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To be fair this article isn't accurate either.
If you click the British Medical Journal link, it states that you'll lose about 50% through the head when clothed in -4C weather. This article would only be accurate if you qualify it by saying "nude in -4C weather, you'll only lose 7-10% of body heat through the head"
The article also mentions another experiment done about 20 years ago with swimmers and the same body heat measurements, with results showing that heat loss was correlated with area exposed. It's a poppish article but the background behind the myth was the big TIL for me