Looks like there’s some lying going on, lol

  • Cethin
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    59 hours ago

    As someone closer to 6’1" usually, I just go with 6’ because it’s easier. It’s funny that both ends of 6’ seem to just report 6’. The shorter side seems more likely to do this, obviously, but I think there’s a lot of people like me who just choose the slightly easier option too. I’d be curious if you got the same anomaly if multiple foot markers were within the majority of the normal distribution.

  • @[email protected]
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    471 day ago

    I am definitely 5’11" and 3/4" and I definitely don’t report it as 5’11" no one is going to pull out a measuring tape on me.

    • HubertManne
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      161 day ago

      im 5’11" and some change and would just say six if people asked and my brother got so mad when he found our I was shy of six as he thought I was taller. I like dude. im not memorizing whatever fraction is after five eleven. I guess I could say 5 eleven instead but that same laziness that does not want to remember some fraction also prefers to answer with one word.

      • @[email protected]
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        520 hours ago

        Oddly, i had the same argument with my brother in law.

        I’m 6’2", but I always say I’m around 6’1" or 6’2", so I don’t blow up any 5’11"s cover. My BL who is very clearly 3-4" shorter than me tried to convince me that I’m 6’4", because he is exactly 6 foot. He got super upset, like red in the face, temper tantrum.

      • originalucifer
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        318 hours ago

        im 5’10.5. i tell people im 5’10 cuz who the fuck cares. hell, it prolly wont be long til im 5’9

    • Ephera
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      322 hours ago

      I mean, if it’s 11.75 inches, then you should be rounding up anyways…

  • lime!
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    2224 hours ago

    i wonder if this rounding also exists in metric countries, i could see people writing 190cm if they’re 189.

    • @gmtom
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      12 hours ago

      Definitely not me. I’m 190cm with shoes I swear!

    • @[email protected]
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      23 hours ago

      I honestly don’t know how tall I am. I know I’m taller than last time I was seriously measured, but I don’t know by how much and I don’t care. But everyone shrinks during the day anyway. Measuring height to precise centimeters has just a little more sense than weighing someone with precision of ⅒ of kilogram. I have basically no chance but to estimate and possibly round.

    • @idiomaddict
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      424 hours ago

      That’s what my six foot tall mother used to say.

      • @waz
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        213 hours ago

        I used to say I was 5’ 15". The number of times people would say “no way, your at least 6 feet” or something similar is amazing.

  • @DaddleDew
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    1 day ago

    6’1" is also lower than the other side of the curve, which suggests people just like to round up or down to 6’.

    • @Soup
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      71 day ago

      It actually makes a lot of sense, to me anyway, why the left portion would be more heavily weighted.

      6’-0” and up is pretty rare as far as the world goes. 6’-5” is kinda the ceiling for humans barring some exceptions and there are plenty of reasons to stop growing on the way to it while there isn’t really any way to grow bigger.

      • SanguinePar
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        117 hours ago

        6’6" checking in. Not often I see someone taller than me :-)

        • @[email protected]
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          115 hours ago

          I worked with a fella who was 6’8” or more. He was like looking at a natural wonder. Very sweet dude though.

    • The Picard ManeuverOP
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      61 day ago

      I bet 6’1" is accurate, if the mean of the curve was where it’s supposed to be instead of at 5’10"

    • @bradboimler
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      120 hours ago

      If I had that one inch I’d own it

  • @whotookkarl
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    821 hours ago

    Just using this data to show how stupidly wealth is currently distributed in the country assuming 5’11" or 1.8 meters average if we converted this into 2022 wealth values with average income of 61,136, top 1% as 785,968 (12.9x), and 0.1% 2.8 million (458x) the top 1% height would be 23.22 meters and 0.1% would be 824.4 meters tall.

    • @tehfishman
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      1515 hours ago

      I’m pretty high and I can’t make an ounce of sense of what you’re on about

      • @whotookkarl
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        314 hours ago

        Naturally occurring normal numeric distributions will tend towards a bell shape, or curve, as you acquire observations. Artificial distributions like income will follow a different curve that is sometimes difficult to visualize especially when the differences are measured in millions or billions. It’s easier to visualize the differences in artificial distributions if you use a natural distribution as a familiar basis.

        Tl;Dr Do you think Paul Bunyan and Paul Blart are related?

        • @tehfishman
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          312 hours ago

          Only if they both know who took Karl

  • @MrJameGumb
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    111 day ago

    I’m 5’11" without shoes and I can’t imagine why anyone would lie about that lol like why wouldn’t you just say your 6’ tall at that point if you’re lying anyway?

    • @SkyezOpen
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      312 hours ago

      I’m 5’11"and I like to say “I’m 6’ when I wear my heelys.” People aren’t ready for it. They especially aren’t ready when I actually heely away.

    • @[email protected]
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      211 day ago

      Goofy story time!

      I’m 5’11 ¾”. Like, distinctly not 6’, but every doctor always puts me down as 6’ “for my ego” despite me not really caring one way or another. Well, I’ve put down 5’ 11” on official documents before, and had flags thrown up for the discrepancy. So at this point, I have to write 6’ because it’s what my medical records say, but not my actual height.

      • @[email protected]
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        141 day ago

        Brother from 5’11 and an half till 6’00 and an half the correct rounding is 6’00.

        You truly are 6’00 as far as accurate measuring is concerned.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 day ago

          You aren’t wrong, but my sister’s height for instance was recorded to the nearest quarter at the same pediatrician’s office.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 day ago

        I’ve put down 5’ 11” on official documents before, and had flags thrown up for the discrepancy.

        What does this mean?? You’ve had the police or government or something investigate you because of a 1-inch height difference between different records!?

        • @[email protected]
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          31 day ago

          Far less dramatic, I was questioned about it before a surgery once. “Official” probably sounded scarier than I meant it

      • @Soup
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        31 day ago

        I’m 6’-4.75” (how did you do that 3/4?!?) but say 6’-5”. It’s faster, a quarter inch is basically nothing, wearing socks or shoes changes it, no one is anywhere near my height to moan about it, and frankly being precise would just make me sound like more of a douche than adding ~0.25”.

        I’d even rather say “juuuust under six-five” than “six-foot-four-and-three-quarters”.

      • MagnyusG
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        11 day ago

        Pretty much the story of my life, I find that more often than not everyone rounds it up to 6 for us.

  • @orl0pl
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    81 day ago

    I don’t measure myself in steps

  • @Marthirial
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    41 day ago

    So most men are 5-9 and 5-11 adjusted for lying.

  • southsamurai
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    122 hours ago

    Shit, I used to be a cunt hair under 6 foot (so little below it that just shifting posture could take it over by a quarter inch, or under by the same).

    Now, I’m a cunt hair over 5 10. Spine issues for the lose?

    But some of my records still show me at 6 even, and that’s what I tend to put down when I’m not thinking about it. Years of habit.