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yssida
Joined: 16 Sep 2007 Posts: 253 Location: sa jaan lang
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:58 pm Post subject: Am I average? |
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Ok, so my height is 166cm, and I weigh at around 49 or 50 kg and asoif now I'm 15 but soon going to be 16 on six days. Different BMI tests tell me different results everytime. I'm sure race, or lineage has something to do with this so I'm half Chinese and half Filipino. Is this average for me? And what is the approximate average height at y'alls places at 15 whether white or non-white?
Thanks! _________________ kasabot ka ani? aw di tingali ka bisaya mao na
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yssida
Joined: 16 Sep 2007 Posts: 253 Location: sa jaan lang
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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I also forgot, kiong hi kiong hi!
Congratulations, be merry! _________________ kasabot ka ani? aw di tingali ka bisaya mao na
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StrangeMagic Admin
Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 640
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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Sin Ngen Kai Lok - (Hakka)
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Well, I'm not sure, but to compare, I am 155 cm and I weight around 40kg. I am still 15, but will be 16 in a month and several days. And I am full Chinese. Maybe most Chinese people are short and quite skinny. LOL |
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Aeetlrcreejl
Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 839 Location: Over yonder
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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Xasicinurnał! _________________ Iwocwá ĵọṭãsák.
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eldin raigmore Admin
Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 1621 Location: SouthEast Michigan
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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First off; no, you're obviously not average. You're smarter than average; and, since you're on this board with us, you must also have better-than-average "taste" and aesthetic sense.
All right: about your body.
In the USA the average adult height is 5' 6" (about 168 cm).
World-wide the average adult height is 5' (about 152 cm).
The USA isn't the nation with the tallest average adult height; the Netherlands and/or some Scandinavian country(ies) is.
Sex and race do make a difference; but race makes less of a difference than nationality.
In the USA the average height for adult women is 5' (152 cm).
As for weight; I'm between 183 and 193 cm (6' and 6' 4") tall. The average adult guy my height weighs about 190# (masses about 86,364 grams or 86.364 kilograms).
This varies a lot with age; the younger adults tend to be thinner than the middle-aged adults.
It also varies a lot with culture. Many other countries average a lot thinner than Americans.
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halyihev
Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 175 Location: Vermont, New England / Vrïtálá Kritsensá, Álurhná
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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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eldin raigmore wrote: | First off; no, you're obviously not average. You're smarter than average; and, since you're on this board with us, you must also have better-than-average "taste" and aesthetic sense.
All right: about your body.
In the USA the average adult height is 5' 6" (about 168 cm).
World-wide the average adult height is 5' (about 152 cm).
The USA isn't the nation with the tallest average adult height; the Netherlands and/or some Scandinavian country(ies) is.
Sex and race do make a difference; but race makes less of a difference than nationality.
In the USA the average height for adult women is 5' (152 cm).
As for weight; I'm between 183 and 193 cm (6' and 6' 4") tall. The average adult guy my height weighs about 190# (masses about 86,364 grams or 86.364 kilograms).
This varies a lot with age; the younger adults tend to be thinner than the middle-aged adults.
It also varies a lot with culture. Many other countries average a lot thinner than Americans.
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Wow, where did these averages come from, Eldin? I'm 5'7" and at least 75% of the males I meet are taller than I am, often by at least 3-6 inches. Many younger women seem to be at least my height, if not a few inches taller (my twin daughters, for example, are 5'9" and 5'10").
If a straight 5'0" is average for adult women in the US, that means I should be meeting a lot of short women, yet I know only three adult women who are 5' or under.
Is it just different in New England, and perhaps if I went elsewhere in the US a lot I'd see what you're seeing?
Admittedly I can see where world-wide the average height is a bit shorter than what I'm used to here. When I visited Ireland, it did seem like more men were about my height, although I still didn't see the women as being all *that* much shorter than the men. In Guatemala, however, I was definitely in the upper range of average, and most men and all women were shorter than I am. _________________ Dwirze ghárìlen ershónyá áqálán.
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yssida
Joined: 16 Sep 2007 Posts: 253 Location: sa jaan lang
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 9:40 am Post subject: |
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halyihev wrote: | Admittedly I can see where world-wide the average height is a bit shorter than what I'm used to here. When I visited Ireland, it did seem like more men were about my height, although I still didn't see the women as being all *that* much shorter than the men. In Guatemala, however, I was definitely in the upper range of average, and most men and all women were shorter than I am. |
this is what bothers me. In my school, I am one of the shortest in class. Outside however, I am taller than most adult men and women. I don't know why that is so. Supposedly, since most students at my school are well-to-do (well, that probably excludes me)---and nutrition seems to be playing a big factor here, many students are taller on average than other children in my age. I find it very frustrating for a tricycle/tuktuk/becak to charge me college fares when in fact I'm still finishing high school! _________________ kasabot ka ani? aw di tingali ka bisaya mao na
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eldin raigmore Admin
Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 1621 Location: SouthEast Michigan
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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halyihev wrote: | ... where did these averages come from, Eldin? | I no longer remember. I found them in the late 1980s when there was controversy in Houston over their height requirement (5'6") for police officers. They said that officers had to be at least the median height; some women and some Hispanics wanted it reduced to 5'4" (because the 5'6" requirement discriminated against women and Hispanics), but the city was upheld. (As a result, though, if you went out into Harris county, you generally encountered some very short Sheriff's deputies.) Also, at that same time, my god-daughter was asking that kind of question. Her mother (my commadre), who is Chinese, is 5' 0" tall. That is (or at least was) average for an American woman or for a world-wide adult, and is tall for a world-wide woman.
halyihev wrote: | ...Many younger women seem to be at least my height, if not a few inches taller (my twin daughters, for example, are 5'9" and 5'10"). | Among Americans (and some other countries) big generational gains seem to be due to nutrition and health-care.
halyihev wrote: | Is it just different in New England, and perhaps if I went elsewhere in the US a lot I'd see what you're seeing? | I don't actually know, but that seems likely to me. If you're in New England but not in a metropolis, you may not have much contact with foreigners or immigrants or members of races with shorter average heights. But I don't know for a fact where you live, nor who else lives there; and even if I did I might not know the explanation. Have you checked systematically to be sure your impression is correct, rather than being "a trick of memory" or a tendency to notice the taller ones more than the shorter ones or something? If it's not a real phenomenon no explanation for it need be produced; if it is real, well, your guess sounds as good as mine, at least to me.
halyihev wrote: | Admittedly I can see where world-wide the average height is a bit shorter than what I'm used to here. When I visited Ireland, it did seem like more men were about my height, although I still didn't see the women as being all *that* much shorter than the men. In Guatemala, however, I was definitely in the upper range of average, and most men and all women were shorter than I am. | Countries with better and more consistent and widespread standards of nutrition and health-care tend to have taller average heights than other countries, even if populated by the same races. That's one reason that the Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries have taller average heights than USAmerica.
I'm not sure if there are many big racial differences that can ever overshadow these national, generational, and nutritional differences. Obviously Pygmies are short and Watutsi are tall, but other than that I don't know; maybe the reason "hispanics" are shorter has nothing to do with Native American "blood",, but rather with the tendency for taller South Americans to stay at home instead of coming to the US.
PS: because of differences in nutrition every generation in U.S.America is taller than the previous generation up to and including today. You wouldn't guess that Americans born in 1988 were that much better nourished than those born in 1968, but they were; you wouldn't guess that Americans born in 1968 were that much better nourished than those born in 1948, but they were.
(Some doctors don't say the nutrition has improved; only that it has more protein.)
Advances in health-care, however, are much more evident.
There's no reason to believe those trends will keep up forever. |
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Dhanus Admin
Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 192
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Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:45 am Post subject: |
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I've noticed that alot of the people my age actually weigh about 10 kilograms less than their average weight. Like I'm 172cm tall (5 foot 6 or something I think) and I only weigh 55kg, when my average weight (should be) is around 72kg. But like, I am smaller than the rest of the year 10's (15/16 year olds) in my year. I don't know if its because I am one of the youngest since my brithday isn't until December, or maybe its just in my genes to be small, lol. |
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