Collation of heights of macrumors members.
There have been 115 posts that give the answer to the question "How tall are you".
I have collated all of the readily information given on these posts and analysed them to provide an age/sex/height set of figures. The numbers were crunched using Excel (on a PowerBook G4) and ---- and I must admit that this is the very first time that I have needed OS 9 Classic running on my machine. I live, professionally, by StatView but I am here in New Zealand and not at home in the UK where my other machine is and which does have StatView installed. Excel's OK for children, but for real stats, it is a no-hoper. Whatever, I have done the best I can with what I have. So here goes.
All numbers are given in cms (converted to Imperial where I think clarity can be added) and generally take the form of Averages (means) with the Standard Deviations (SD) and Standard Errors about the Mean (SEM) following in Italics.
Of the 115 posts, 9 (7.8%) were from stated, or overwhelmingly inferred (possibly a mistake, but we're all friends here, not so?), females; all of the others were presumed to be males.
The shortest person was a (stated) female, height 5'1" (155cms) and the tallest an inferred male of 6'11" (211cms)
The height of the total responding population was 179.31 cms (SD=10, SEM=0.93). This equates to an average height of 5'10" --- and never mind the imperial SDs and SEMs.
The average height of the "known" females was 167cms (SD = 11, SEM = 4) or, in Imperial, 5' 5.8".
Excluding the females, the height of the males was, then, 180.35cms (SD=9.29, SEM=0.90) equating to an average height of 5'10.99" - can we agree that is 5'11"?
There is a graphical representation of the height distribution by frequency; I THINK it is somewhere as an attachment, but I don't know what I am doing now - gone brain dead.
74 posters gave their age; the average age of the whole group was 21.99 (SD = 7.81, SEM = 0.91) of which the known males, n=70, had an average age 22.01 years ((SD = 8, SEM = 0.96) and for the females was 21.5 (2 were aged 18, 2 were 25)
The youngest (of which there were 2) males were aged 13 and the oldest, again there were two, was 44.
If one looks at the height distribution, according to age, you get the following:
Age (males) Frequency Av height (cms) SD SEM Imperial
11-15 13 181 9.8 2.7 5'11"
16-20 25 181 8.6 1.7 5'11"
21-25 17 177 10.7 2.6 5' 9"
26-30 6 178 7.3 3.0 5'10"
31-35 2 177 ND ND 5'10"
36-40 4 177 ND ND 5'10"
41-45 3 183 ND ND 6' 0"
And this table looks awful in Preview mode of this post. How do I keep the formatting anybody? Sorry
Seems to me that we should all be frightened by a) how young a lot of these very clever posters to macrumors are and b) how tall they are! And they havent finished growing yet, not by a long way.
So I thank whomever it was who posted this thread originally. I was bored at the beginning and I am mind-numbingly bored now. But I have done my bit!!!! I think I am really losing the will to live.
Pity there wasnt complete demographic information on all posters, but this is such an imperfect world, not so? I think I now want to go and swim with a few dolphins.
Cheers, everyone. Until the next post then!
11in/28cm is a lot of ground to cover.
