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Re: Lego Scale Conversion Tool
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 14 Mar 2002 08:17:39 GMT
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In lugnet.general, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.general, Steve Martin writes:
> From the site:
> > The average US adult male is 5'-9.1"
> > The average US adult female is 5'-3.7"
I knew I was above average. It seems that my height is as well. :)
> But, if you travel around the country/world, different regions have quite
> different height norms.
Quite true. I wonder, does this hold true for women as well as men? I've
noticed that men in the south are definately generally taller than men up
north, but what about women?
I'm ~5'10" and live in Kentucky, a North\South border state, so I'm about
medium height (neither tall nor short) for this region but I notice that I
get relatively shorter the farther away from the city I go.
Ben Roller
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| (...) Assuming a 50/50 gender distribution, that's 5'-6.4"... but according to stats... [goes and checks stats] US population is predominantly female (slightly): 48.90% male 51.10% female (1). Accounting for that, we get average height at slightly (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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