Submitted 3 weeks ago by Gork@sopuli.xyz to [deleted]
https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/74dc2403-29fb-43d1-8241-71384a3eecb3.webp
Alt text: Chart showing average height, but incorrectly scales the entire person instead of just the height, with the Netherlands as the tallest and Indonesians as the shortest. Bottom image is the Bane vs. Pink guy meme showing Bane as the Dutch and Pink guy as the Indonesians.
Ohh that’s the reason why Dutch colonized Indonesia for so long
300 hundred years because we are a itty bitty tiny sized human.
300 hundred years
Considering that the Dutch were below average before the second world war, I think your hypothesis is wrong. I think they were just compensating for being tiny during that time.
On a more serious note, I just think the Dutch had zero scruples (inventors of modern capitalism and all).
They just didn’t care how many people they screwed over aslong as they could get one more Gulden in their pocket.
Chart showing average height, but incorrectly scales the entire person instead of just the height, …
The sin committed here was that the y axis began at something other than zero. If you scaled just their height without fixing the y axis, everyone except the Dutch would look like little clay men getting squished by a hydraulic press.
The Dutch are this tall because when the dams break they sti have their head above the water
Once again someone had my funny thought before I had it myself. Good job
chsrt only goed up to 6 foot even
I am taller than every Dutch person by 6 inches. 😤
Based on the body scaling in this chart you’re at least as tall as a two story house then.
Dutch with a 1" head? This graph makes no f*cking sense whatsoever
@graphsthatdontstartatzero@lemmy.world
Lol why are the british and americans so freaking short. I never understood why 6 foot was such a big fucking deal but apparently in hungary, one if the shortest non-southern nations in europe, its still much likelier that you are 6 foot than in the uk or usa. Yall are shorties, explains all the male insecurities /s
I’m not walking around measuring people… ever since the restraining order, but just looking around it seems like guys here in the US are around 5’10" or 5’11" on average. I’m 6’2" and don’t really feel tall.
Someone else guessed maybe it’s because of the higher proportion of people from other regions where average height in their place of birth (or parents’ or grandparents’ place of birth) is shorter. Makes sense to me that our immigrants and their offspring could be bringing down average height.
Maybe there is something to it but the uk for example has really low immigration and where i libe now in sweden, like one fourth of the population is recently immigrated people and even the immigrants are taller than youd expect tho there is a lot of mixing between people. I also think the immigration from for example the balkans could have actually pushed the average height up because croatians, serbians and even more so bosnians are tall af.
Yes, the height of black and white men averages close to 5’10" here, and the height of black and white women around 5’5" I think, we do just have a lot of everyone here, except apparently not Dutch?
My husband & I are both about 5’9" and he says he feels dead average because sometimes he goes out and is taller than all the guys he passes, and sometimes goes out and is shorter than all the guys he passes, but usually doesn’t notice, I feel tall because I don’t notice if all the women I pass are shorter than me but really notice if many are taller than me.
5’9" is average for an American male, a mere 3" shy of 6’. Plus, this graph is not only false, the scale is laughable.
Average for the US is 5’10" apparently, but given our melting pot status id still say it was pretty tall.
Is this taken from a DnD book where they replaced the text that would normally go as “Ogre, Human, Elf, Dwarf, Halfling”
I wonder how this correlates with ethnic diversity in the population?
Is the Netherlands average high because of a lack there and are the UK and US lower because of greater ethnic diversity in the population?
Not necessarily. Ethnic diversity is higher in US than in Indonesia.
shit Americans say.
There are more than 600 ethnic groups[2] in the multicultural Indonesian archipelago, making it one of the most diverse countries in the world.
I’m confused. Wouldn’t that support the theory?
If lower in ethnic diversity and native Indonesians are naturally short than Indonesia would be shorter on average. Whereas the US, being such a melting pot, would have a greater range of heights bringing the overall average down, right?
That’s hard to tell, because not everyone tracks data the same way.
The UK has a population that’s 72% British/Irish. The Netherlands has a population that’s 74% Dutch.
I figured it would be hard to determine statistically, but figured it was worth mentioning for consideration.
The UK has a population that’s 72% British/Irish. The Netherlands has a population that’s 74% Dutch.
There are lots of factors that can influence height but about 80% of an individual’s height is determined by genetics and certain populations, like those in the Dinaric Alps (including parts of Eastern Europe), are predisposed to taller statures.
For example, Uganda is generally considered the most ethnically diverse country and the average male height there is 5’ 6.4" which is really close to the global average. Correlation by itself doesn’t equal causation but it’s a good place to start.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That is an aggressively shitty way to present that data
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nah man, this is the slimmest average my people have ever had. We’ll take it