Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect. It is measured using a stadiometer...
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Below are two tables which report the average adult human height by country or geographical region. With regard to the first table, original studies and...
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ground. Thus, elevation plus height can equal altitude, but the term altitude has several meanings in aviation. Human height is one of the areas of study...
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Height discrimination (also known as heightism) is prejudice or discrimination against individuals based on height. In principle, it refers to the discriminatory...
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Height can significantly influence success in sports, depending on how the design of the sport is linked to factors that are height-biased due to physics...
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Heights of presidents and presidential candidates of the United States (redirect from List of United States Presidents by height order)
candidates of the United States is useful for evaluating what role, if any, height plays in presidential elections in the United States. Some observers have...
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The study of height and intelligence examines correlations between human height and human intelligence. Some epidemiological research on the subject has...
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List of tallest people (redirect from Tall human)
Living Deceased Living Deceased Giant Gigantism Giant human skeletons Goliath Human height Sotos syndrome List of tallest players in National Basketball...
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A stadiometer is a piece of medical equipment used for measuring human height. It is usually constructed out of a ruler and a sliding horizontal headpiece...
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anthropometry Human height List of heaviest people Obesity Overweight Set point theory Stone (unit) § human body weight Thermoregulation in humans Underweight...
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Body mass index (category Human height)
The modern term "body mass index" (BMI) for the ratio of human body weight to squared height was coined in a paper published in the July 1972 edition...
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Short stature (redirect from Short height)
Short stature refers to a height of a human which is below typical. Whether a person is considered short depends on the context. Because of the lack of...
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List of tallest players in NBA history (category Human height)
regular season; from 1946-47 to 2010-11; 7-3 or taller; sorted by descending height". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 28,...
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Dwarfism (category Human height)
kingdom. In humans, it is sometimes defined as an adult height of less than 147 centimetres (4 ft 10 in), regardless of sex; the average adult height among...
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Napoleon complex (redirect from Height inferiority complex)
someone mentions that he's short, even innocently.[citation needed] Human height Heightism Inferiority complex Sandberg, David E.; Linda D. Voss (September...
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Pygmy peoples (category Human height)
In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short. The term pygmyism is used to describe the phenotype of endemic...
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the worldwide average height for an adult human male is about 171 cm (5 ft 7 in), while the worldwide average height for adult human females is about 159 cm...
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beginning with Height All pages with titles containing Height Human height Height discrimination Tree height measurement Reduced height of a field, the...
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practical unit of length for many everyday measurements; for instance, human height is commonly measured in centimetres. A centimetre is approximately the...
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List of shortest players in NBA history (category Human height)
9 inches (175 cm) or shorter. Only 25 NBA players have been at or below this height. The shortest NBA player to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball...
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Homo floresiensis (redirect from Human Hobbit)
range of normal modern human height and considerably shorter than the average adult height of even the smallest modern humans, such as the Mbenga and...
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Tall, dark and handsome (category Human height)
evolutionary bases of human sexuality. In 2017 he was asked if "tall, dark and handsome" is universally attractive in the human experience and he stated...
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accounts. They were said to have exceeded at least double normal human height, with some accounts giving heights of 13 to 15 feet (4 to 4.5 m) or more...
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Size (section Human perception)
with which humans tend to be most familiar are body dimensions (measures of anthropometry), which include measures such as human height and human body weight...
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Dorothy Irene Height (March 24, 1912 – April 20, 2010) was an African-American civil rights and women's rights activist. She focused on the issues of African-American...
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district of Nepal. He was awarded the title of shortest adult human ever recorded, after his height was measured in February 2012. He was subsequently included...
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race of people in the novels of J. R. R. Tolkien. About half average human height, Tolkien presented hobbits as a variety of humanity, or close relatives...
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List of the verified shortest people (redirect from List of short humans)
people This was Nisa's baby height, she later grew. This was Francis Joseph Flynn's shortest height, because he grew in height after age 16; he is not listed...
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metric systems. It is based on the height of a man with his arm raised. Modulor considered the standard human height as 1.83 m, excluding feminine measures...
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Midget (category Human height)
People, First--Intervene and They Will Learn. College of Education and Human Development Urban Education Conference. Jackson, Mississippi. "midget"....
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