FrisianDude
Archduke
Graduate from university at 21? 
Blimey.
Blimey.
Why are people in universities taller?
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Archduke
FrisianDude
Archduke
More blimey because I'm 21 and kinda won't even start a course (at 'university of applied science' or hogeschool level) until the start of next school-year.
Shio
That's not really true either. If people can't afford the good junk food then they would buy the cheaper off-brand junk food.Austupaio 说:
Ilex 说:
But I'm tiny. I am only 0.4 ilexes tall! You, on the other hand, are 1.6 Llandys tall! I might not be as smrt as you, but I like to think that I at least am more than 0.4 of your intelligence!
Oh, well, that's okay then. You frost-giants can resume your smarty-pantsness.
mournful
Knight
How did you get the figure for women at your school being four inches above average? If it's self reported or sampled I would be skeptical. When I was in school, I don't remember anyone recording people's height. I don't know how you would get an accurate figure like that unless everyone is required to get their medical checkup at the school.
Now I could certainly see a sample giving the impression of college students being taller. Whenever I went to bars or clubs in college, people were usually significantly taller there. And it's true taller people have more confidence making things like going to college more likely. So if it were a sample of student height taken at say, a sorority, then I could see the number being higher. I'd guess taller people are more social. But four inches higher for an entire school sounds unusually high.
Now I could certainly see a sample giving the impression of college students being taller. Whenever I went to bars or clubs in college, people were usually significantly taller there. And it's true taller people have more confidence making things like going to college more likely. So if it were a sample of student height taken at say, a sorority, then I could see the number being higher. I'd guess taller people are more social. But four inches higher for an entire school sounds unusually high.
Tibertus 说:
Anecdotal evidence of exceptions really doesn't mean much, not unless your family is large enough to make a significant blip in the average sample size for a study.
Austupaio 说:
Don't tell me, tell the people eating that food and the people funding the research.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/a-high-price-for-healthy-food/
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/business/13veggies.html?_r=1
http://www.grist.org/article/philpott7/
Average Joe peasant
Grandmaster Knight
If it's UNM, NMT or NMSU, I would think that the height discrepancy is due to a higher number of Germanic whites and Hispanics on campus who can claim actual European heritage, mixed or direct. Europeans, at least according to Wikipedia, are taller on average than Americans and Mexicans. And I think you're confusing the Mexican and Spanish populations of the state.
Night Ninja 说:Tibertus 说:
Anecdotal evidence of exceptions really doesn't mean much, not unless your family is large enough to make a significant blip in the average sample size for a study.
Austupaio 说:
Don't tell me, tell the people eating that food and the people funding the research.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/a-high-price-for-healthy-food/
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/business/13veggies.html?_r=1
http://www.grist.org/article/philpott7/
Cause I'd expect someone from the NY Times to know how to look for deals on food and where to shop.
That's a load of bull****, and you don't know any better because you're probably from an upper middle class family.
Practical experience tells me that I can get a weeks worth of lunches at the local deli in cold cuts, bread, and veggies for the same price as four microwave meals or a couple bigmac meals. I also know that I can get several lbs of pasta for a couple bucks, and I can make my own gravy for real cheap. Hell, I know where to get these hand made breakfast rolls which are like a meat and vegetable stuffed ciabata roll, and they're a buck a pop. The point is, if you're poor, you know where to go.
JoePeasant 说:
I know a lot of people who claim to be "Spanish", but they're a little over five feet tall and darker than most natives. It's kinda funny. I'm not confusing anyone, because I'm not looking at just one ethnic group. I'm taking a random group from UNM, finding they're on average about 5'10", and comparing that to the state's average height, which is 5'8". There is about 42-43% of the population which is Mexican, which is why this state is an inch or two below other states. I did used to go to NMT, and you're right about the Germanics there, there's a ton for some reason, but I'm talking about UNM right now, which is mostly instate students and represents New Mexico's demographic pretty well.
Tibertus 说:
Yes, and how much more empty calories can you get for the same amount of money you spend on your food? Not everyone poor is able to make the choices that you do, if they did they wouldn't be having diet problems.
I may not be a dietitian, but I strongly suspect that you get more "empty calories" from junk food, than from pasta, fresh cold cut meats and cheese, and vegetables. Also, only people I know of having diet problems around here are middle class people with weight problems from eating fatty, high calorie junk food.
Either way, there's plenty of poor people in this university, mostly due to a state scholarship that pays for four years of tuition and the only requirement is that you graduate from a NM high school and maintain a 2.5 GPA, and the school being very inexpensive to begin with.
Either way, there's plenty of poor people in this university, mostly due to a state scholarship that pays for four years of tuition and the only requirement is that you graduate from a NM high school and maintain a 2.5 GPA, and the school being very inexpensive to begin with.
Sumpfkraut
Regular
It's probably like this:Tibertus 说:
People who go to university are not unusually comparatively wealthy, and people who are comparatively wealthy are usually well fed, and people who ahve been well fed during their critical growth phases usually grow larger. But of course this is dependent upon how plutocratic the respective state/society is.
Oh, and I said well-fed, not just much-fed.
If it isn't that it'sprobably just mere chance or selective percception. At least I can't think of any other reasonable theories.
It seems you didn't really read the last couple pages of discussion on diet. Really, I don't know why people consider it to be such a large factor so quickly. Back in the middle ages, you saw a slight difference between nobility and commoners because there was a huge difference in diet. There isn't that huge difference any more, at least not in developed countries. I see this issue of being more sociological than biological.
Maybe the people at university just generally got more exercise during their major growing periods.
