[MUD-Dev] Metric vs. English System of Measurement in Games

[Michael Hartman]

ceo wrote:

> In the UK, the "visible population" i.e. those visible every day
> in the streets, in the media, in working environments have an
> average male height much much closer to 6 foot. In fact, IIRC
> (vaguely) the average for people under 40 years old is 5-11 or
> 6-0.

Um, no. First of all, what the heck is "visible population." Second,
you have simply fallen prey to a grossly warped view of men in the
western industrialized world. They are not 6 feet and taller by
average. Depending on the report, the average male height in the US
and Western Europe is 5'8" or 5'9" which is a solid 3-4 inches under
6'.

  http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r041027.htm

  "The report, Mean Body Weight, Height, and Body Mass Index (BMI)
  1960-2002: United States, prepared by CDC's National Center for
  Health Statistics, shows that the average height of a man aged
  20-74 years increased from just over 5'8" in 1960 to 5'9½" in
  2002, while the average height of a woman the same age increased
  from slightly over 5'3" 1960 to 5'4" in 2002."

I don't know an organization similar to the CDC in Europe, but the
average height of men in other major industrialized nations are
given here:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_height

  Germany: 5'8" to 5'9"
  Japan: 5'5"
  Netherlands: 6'0"
  United Kingdom: 5'9" to 5'10"
  USA: 5'9"

It is simply a complete fallacy to say average male height is over
6' when that is only true in (at best) a handful of countries and
certainly not in the majority of world population.

You start factoring in China and India and the average height is
going to plummet further.

--
Michael Hartman
President and CEO, Threshold Virtual Environments, Inc.
http://www.thresholdrpg.com
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