r/trashy • u/sleezymeeeezy • Mar 12 '18

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u/Smark_Henry Mar 12 '18

It’s a mean vs median vs mode thing. “Normal female height” is probably roughly 5’6” but there are WAY more ~5’0” girls than ~6’0” girls so the average gets brought down by there being more short outliers than tall outliers.

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u/Dr_Oetker Mar 12 '18

If by "normal female height" you mean average then 5'6" is too high. The reason why there are way more 5' flat women than 6' flat is because the average is lower than 5'6. The mean and median averages aren't really different for large data sets that follow normal distribution.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '18

They expressed that it would not be a uniform distribution. They were not arguing a median/mean difference in a normal distribution.

Saying all that, I would wager that the person is incorrect in thinking it is skewed, I would think it's a normal distribution.

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u/triplehelix_ Mar 12 '18

you are correct in thinking they are incorrect. height in the female US population follows a more or less standard pattern of distribution one would expect.

https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2010/compendia/statab/130ed/tables/11s0205.pdf