Height Men!?

[Ferret]

I'm 5'10", which I consider to be quite tall, but lots of my friends are over 6'! Which is a bit annoying but its nothing too bad. What's worse is I used to think I was 5'11"!

 

[Mycanid]

Heh. :\ My brother is 6'4" ... and I am the one who loves basketball at 5'7" ... and he does not like it.

Sabotage!

 

[drothgery]

6' even, which seems to be kind of an odd spot in the poll; there are more people at both 5' 11" and 6' 1".

baselines for you metric types
6' 6" - 198 cm
6' - 183 cm
5' 6" - 168 cm
5' - 152 cm

 

[Gothmog]

I'm 6'2", and everyone that games with me (male and female) is 5'10" or under. Its kinda fun to be able to look down on them as a rat-bastard DM.

Of course, my players and students tease me about looking like Triple H (minus the goofy sideburns), so I get some crap back.

 

[Fenris]

6'4" here. I noticed when I voted that there were two entries for 6'3" BTW.

 

[Ferret]

Heh. :\ My brother is 6'4" ... and I am the one who loves basketball at 5'7" ... and he does not like it.

Sabotage!

My brother is about 6'2", so I kinda know how you feel. I'm not into basketball but sportswise he's always had the upperhand....

 

[jonathan swift]

Right at 5'8"

 

[hafrogman]

I'm 6'2", and everyone that games with me (male and female) is 5'10" or under.

I used to game with a group where 3 of the 7 people were 6'6" or taller. That was weird.

 

[kenobi65]

I'm curious to see if 5-ft. 9-in. will win out since it's the average height of a North American male (just as it happens to be in the Player's Handbook).

It seems odd that 5-ft. 10-in. seems to be winning out so far; are gamers on average taller than the norm, or only more self-delusional?

Eh, let's see what it looks like when we have more than 37 responses. Right now, that difference is well within the range of sampling bias.

 

[Ferret]

How big does the sample have to be to be free of bias? What is sampling bias anyway? (I do Statistics 1 at school, so I'm curious)