• Rhaedas@fedia.io
      331·
      4 months ago

      Such techniques are often used to sell a conclusion with data that doesn’t agree. Scaling, cropping, etc. Visuals are very powerful, and people will look at a graph and assume it’s correct.

    • ramble81@lemm.ee
      8·
      4 months ago

      I was trying to figure out what was bothering me about it. Basically 1’0” - 5’0” is 1 tick mark part foot and then it’s 1 tick mark per inch. So basically you have a 12:1 ratio for the first 60 inches so it’s not a linear, logarithmic, exponential or any normal type of scale.

    • rem26_art@fedia.io
      3·
      4 months ago

      one glance and you’d assume that the average Indonesian man only comes up to the calf of the average man from The Netherlands

  • gerryflap@feddit.nl
    311·
    4 months ago

    This scale is totally wack. The feet of the human bodies in the graph don’t start at 0 but somewhere between 4 and 5. Such a bad graph. That being said, we Dutch people are very tall and powerful and you should be terrified >:3

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    20·
    4 months ago

    Ah, yes, Netherlanders are indeed 4x taller than Indonesians, but at least the Indonesians get better saving throws from their size.

  • TomMasz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    4 months ago

    I’m 6’4" (193 cm) and I felt totally average walking around Amsterdam. As opposed to being a mutant freak in Tokyo.

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
      3·
      4 months ago

      In the US, it also depends on the area. At 6’4" you might be normal in Salt Lake City but a freak in Tampa. My wife is 6’2". In most places she is by far the tallest woman (and often person) in the room.

      When we lived in Park City (Utah) she didn’t seem as tall and often would not be the tallest woman there. It was fun to see.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 months ago

        TIL that Mormons are the just normal Americans that grew too tall and were driven insane by the altitude.

        “So why aren’t Dutch people all Mormon?”, you might ask. Simple: cannabis and women with full legal control to do or not do what they want with their bodies are excellent inoculations against Mormonism.

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
            1·
            4 months ago

            I’m afraid you’ve gotten the order wrong. If you ask nicely by way of completing the necessary paperwork, you can visit the Netherlands for the inoculation, though!

      • nimpnin@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        4 months ago

        6’2" is still 9 inches taller than the average woman in Utah. Is Park City some kind of extreme international anomaly?

        • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
          1·
          4 months ago

          I didn’t mean to imply that evey woman was 6’2"+ . Let me be more specific. In twenty years living in Louisiana, Texas, and Florida my wife never met a woman anywhere near her height with the exception of a set of basketball playing twins that lived in our condo building in Austin. We hit Park City and she sees women that are 6’0"+ pretty much daily. Not every woman, but also not unusual to see at least one. I do not know the reason for this.

          EDIT: grammar

    • Lynxtickler@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      4 months ago

      This is already noticeable between Finland and England. According to the stats I’ve seen, the averages between the two are two inches apart. So, I’m average or just a tad shorter than the average man in the UK. In Finland I’m 5cm shorter than the average, and I kinda feel oddly tall every time I walk around in London because of that.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        I’m about a centimeter above the average for an adult male in Denmark and feel like a giant every time I visit the US 😄

  • BenVimes@lemmy.ca
    4·
    4 months ago

    I’m 188cm (6’2") and grew up in a fairly insular community of Dutch people and their descendants. I thought I was average height until I left that bubble went to university.