Height/Weight (Maybe Age?)

[Dallas Starr]

6'1", 240 lbs., 26 years old

 

[James FreemanJr]

WOW I feel short



5'8" - 175lb - 26

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Bill V...anything 6' or above is tall, IMHO. I know at 6'4" you probably don't look at it this way, but the reality is that the average male height in the US has been around 5'9" for years...

 

[Bill V]

From my perspective--and by that, I mean both from the perspective of my own height, and of what I see around my part of the country...



Men--5'11" - 6'4" is about average. 6'5" on up is tall. 5'10" on down is short.

Women--5'8" - 5'11" is about average. 6' on up is tall. 5'7" on down is short.



5'9"--average??? Only in about 9th grade...



Then again, those numbers are probably put together by the same dieticians and others who say that a man who is 6'4" and weighs 195 is overweight...

 

[Thomas Rogers]

BillV, I understand what you are saying, it's just men that are 5'11" to 6'4" simply aren't average...they are tall.



I say that given that the average is 5'9"...it just is. You may disagree with that, but I have seen several sources that claim so.



Those that are (well) below the 5'9" average are short; those well above that average are tall.



Here is another source for the 5'9" average stat:

 

[Casey B]

5'8" / 170lbs / 32

 

[Bill Ellis]

Q. What is the Average Height for an Adult Male?



From Vincent Iannelli, M.D.,

Your Guide to Pediatrics.

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A. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the average height for an adult male in the United States is:

69.2 inches, or

5 feet 9.2 inches



This statistic for the average height for an adult male is from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) conducted from 1999-2002.

 

[Wes Davis]

I notice that Bill V is from Minnesota which has a large Scandinavian ethnic heritage population. I bet those Scandinavians on average are a little taller than the rest of the average populace. I will also add that the beautiful tall blonde girls of Minnesota are a benefit of the Scandinavian heritage. I thought blondes were for California and Florida until I spent a couple of months in Minnesota. LOL

 

[Johnny O]

6'1", 170 lbs, 45 years old.

The average weight and height of Americans has been increasing steadily for about 100 years. All those good Flintstone vitamins.

I read once that the average size of a U.S. soldier in WWII was about 5'6" and 135 lbs.

My son is 16, has outweighed me for over a year, this year he's taller than me and wears a size 14 shoe (I wear 12's). Junior is 6'3" and about 205.

 

[Martin Luckett]

6'4" , 205 lbs. 55 years YOUNG ............

 

[Todd D]

6' 165 lbs, working on the downward side of 39



Todd

 

[Ben Schepper]

6'1 165LBS 19

 

[EddieS'04]

5'9",,190lb,,56yrs

 

[R 2]

6-1, 210, 8%bf (you figger it out), Xgen

 

[ReggieMRegalOne05 Legaspi]

69"/155/61 next month

 

[Bill Ellis]

5'-11" 160 56 Good BMI Same weight since 21.

 

[Bill V]

TJR--



I'm not arguing that this is what you found. I'm just saying that those numbers don't agree with my observations.



Maybe ME is on to something. He's right that the Scandinavians in Minnesota generally are taller than most other groups--and on top of that, Minnesota's Hispanic and Asian populations are significantly smaller (in quantity, not height) than most of the country, and those groups will generally lower the average height of an area's population.



And I'm sure it also has to do with the way I grew up, and how it affected my perception--My three sisters are 6'1", 6'2", and 6'3", and none of them really consider themselves to be that exceptionally tall. We grew up in a small town, where our high school graduating classes averaged about 50 students, and none of my sisters was the tallest girl in their class--they each had two to four female classmates taller than them. At 6'4", I was only the fifth tallest boy and seventh tallest overall in my graduating class of 44, with several other kids (of both genders) right behind me between 6'2" and 6'4". And this height wasn't anything peculiar to our town, either--every school in our conference generally had teams full of basketball, football, and volleyball players that all consisted of players of those heights, despite them all having class sizes similar to ours from which to draw.



So no, when you grow up in that type of situation, 6'4" isn't tall. And any man under 5'9" or woman under 5'7" is downright puny.



On the other hand, my little brother is 6'9"--who I will definitely grant is "tall". Although not quite as much as my 6'11" cousin.

 

[Jeff C]

6'4", 245lbs.

 

[R 2]

FYI, the customer age distribution for the ST:



<35 15% (WE RULE!!! )

35-55 52%

>55 33%



Frontier/Tacoma have most buyers under 35; ST has least buyers. Ridgeline garners most of the 40-55 segment than any other range. ST has largest % of buyers over 55 for this segment. GEEZERS ALL!



For whoever's wanting to know the answer to this exercise.

 

[R 2]