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- From: sasdvp@unx.sas.com (David V. Phillips)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: How tall will your child be? -- OOPS!
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:31:02 GMT
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- filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM (Fil Feit) writes:
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- >Sorry, I left one tiny bit out. b = height of baby at one year.
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- >Let's try again....
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- OK, I've got a book that my mother filled in with my height at 1 yr.
- and I know how tall my parents were.
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- >------------------------- formula follows ---------------------------
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- >Do all calculations in inches.
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- >1. calculate a (avg ht of parents) = (father's height + mother's height) / 2
- (66 + 63)/2 = 64.5
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- >2. b (baby's height) = baby's height on his first birthday
- 30
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- >3. if child is a boy: use x = 0.61, y = 1.07
- > if child is a girl: use x = 0.57, y = 1.12
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- boy
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- >4. calculate child's height = a*x + b*y - 4.43
- 64.5 * .61 + 30 * 1.07 - 4.43 = Predicted height
- = 67 inches
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- Hmm, I'm 73 1/2 inches....
- Possibilties... wrong height written down
- parentage not what I thought it was
- I'm just odd
- formula is bogus
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- BTW, the 2 times height at two years old would have made me 62 inches,
- if my baby book is correct. I do remember my mother saying my height
- was predicted to be around 66 inches.
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- I guess all of those hours on the rack helped!
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