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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm 5'9" and I'm not an extreme outlier in my workplace or social groups - lots of women are around my height, though rarely taller. My sister is an outlier at 5'11". I don't know who is included in the CDC average but I wonder if it's skewed by an older population (prior generations not as tall + older individuals shrinking).[/quote] "For a U.S. female adult population, the mean height is approximately 64.5 inches with a standard deviation of 2.5 inches, meaning that about 68% of women are within this range, 95% fall within two standard deviations (60-70 inches), and 99.7% are within three standard deviations (57.5-72.5 inches). This follows a normal distribution (bell curve) where the most frequent height is the average, with fewer women at shorter or taller heights." You don't feel like an "extreme outlier" because you aren't. 5'9" is less than two standard deviations from the mean.[/quote]
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