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That's exactly the kind of statistical analysis I hoped someone would produce for me, thank you.
Is a growth spurt of 5 inches at 18-19 years old also relatively common?
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Is a growth spurt of 5 inches at 18-19 years old also relatively common?
It's about 3-5 years late and 25-30% fast compared with median "peak height velocity", which isn't a freakish amount to be away from human development medians.
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statistical analysis
More Fermi Estimate than statistical analysis.
gbj_tester
Nearly all of it is below board even when they are jumping, since the bottom of the board is 9' above the surface of the court.
Lols aside, I think USA pro men are as high as god and nature intended, but the Chinese were suspected of breaking girls' legs and setting them at extended length in order to improve their women's basketball team.
Not freaks, just people at the end of the bell curve. About 1% of all US adult males are over 6'4". If 90% of that group are under 6'5", that still leaves something like 30000 men over 6'5" and aged between 20 and 40, compared with 450 active NBA players.