This was a good post, very informative. So I have a couple questions: how many Germans fit their “ideal” of 180 if it is a bit below average? Normal distribution, so median German will be average German I suppose, but is 2cm one standard deviation? And the same for Americans, is 6 foot eliminating 70% of the male population if it’s this far above average? Should the Germans pick 190 or 200 as their round numbers to have comparable proportions of “inadequate men”? Does picking a below-average number increase the impact on the smaller number of men who don’t pass the bar?
This was a good post, very informative. So I have a couple questions: how many Germans fit their “ideal” of 180 if it is a bit below average? Normal distribution, so median German will be average German I suppose, but is 2cm one standard deviation? And the same for Americans, is 6 foot eliminating 70% of the male population if it’s this far above average? Should the Germans pick 190 or 200 as their round numbers to have comparable proportions of “inadequate men”? Does picking a below-average number increase the impact on the smaller number of men who don’t pass the bar?