TY - JOUR
T1 - Reported versus measured adult statures
AU - Himes, John H.
AU - Roche, Alex F.
PY - 1982/7
Y1 - 1982/7
N2 - Reported and measured statures were obtained for 100 husband‐wife pairs. In addition, wives were asked to specify whether their husbands were tall, medium, or short. Correlations between reported and measured statures are high (0.84–0.97) and wives tend to overestimate their own measured stature by about 1 cm, and that of their husbands by about 1.3 cm. Wives correctly classify their husbands as tall, medium, or short in about 70% of the cases, using terciles of the stature distribution of American men as the standard. Reported statures may be useful proxies for measured statures for certain purposes. In the absence of measured or reported statures, a wife's categorization of her husband as tall, medium, or short may be satisfactory for some group studies.
AB - Reported and measured statures were obtained for 100 husband‐wife pairs. In addition, wives were asked to specify whether their husbands were tall, medium, or short. Correlations between reported and measured statures are high (0.84–0.97) and wives tend to overestimate their own measured stature by about 1 cm, and that of their husbands by about 1.3 cm. Wives correctly classify their husbands as tall, medium, or short in about 70% of the cases, using terciles of the stature distribution of American men as the standard. Reported statures may be useful proxies for measured statures for certain purposes. In the absence of measured or reported statures, a wife's categorization of her husband as tall, medium, or short may be satisfactory for some group studies.
KW - Adult stature
KW - Anthropometry
KW - Reported Stature
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U2 - 10.1002/ajpa.1330580312
DO - 10.1002/ajpa.1330580312
M3 - Article
C2 - 7124927
AN - SCOPUS:0020287229
SN - 0002-9483
VL - 58
SP - 335
EP - 341
JO - American Journal of Physical Anthropology
JF - American Journal of Physical Anthropology
IS - 3
ER -