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That's rather interesting. A little bit of anecdote: I'm Irish and come in at about 170cm. When I was younger and in college (around 2000), I was definitely jus
by talideon 10y ago
That's rather interesting. A little bit of anecdote: I'm Irish and come in at about 170cm. When I was younger and in college (around 2000), I was definitely just (and we're talking 1/2cm here) ever so slightly slightly above the norm, but now I'm definitely below it by most of a head. My generation was the last one that grew up in a relatively 'poor' Ireland, and I'm significantly taller than my father was. It'd be interesting to see that study with data from 2016.
Edit: added some extra text to help quantify the difference I see.
- circlefavshape 10y agoIrish male here too, have gone from being around average in the early 90s to being noticeably below
- muddyrivers 10y agoSimilar things happened in China. I was the last generation that grew up in poor China, in the sense that we were malnourished without sufficient intake of animal proteins when growing up (to be accurate, it is before we were 13~14 years old. After that, the living standard got a big jump.) Among ~200 of high school classmates who talk regularly with each other in a WeChat group, some have children of 16 years old or older. They all said their children are already much taller and stronger than they are.