Anthropometric data; generalisations – would I be correct in saying…

…the following:

1 – Men are taller
2 – Men have broader shoulders
2 – Men have longer arms (?)
3 – Women have proportionally longer legs and shorter torsos (or is it the other way round)

I'm a Craft and Design teacher putting together some lessons on basic anthropometrics and making it relate to bicycles – will be taking in one of my own mountain bikes as an example. And in the hope of wowing some of the kids, and get them engaged.

Yes.
However at a recent excavation where all the bodies (50+) were known to be male (war grave) the Ostoarchaeologists said that 4-5 would have been classed as female had they not known.

Commonsense says YES!

I have nothing else to back that up with tho

Where do you teach Househusband? I teach C&D and use this data but never analysed it too much regarding proportional values betwen men and women.
I suspect your assumptions are correct though.

cheers

whoever designed my bathroom was clearly a woman ( it actually was ). I have to lean sideways when sat on the loo as it's so close to the wall, the mirror is 1ft lower than it should be and again so close to the wall that I have to twist my shoulders to see. The bath is so short I can't sit down with straight legs in it, and the shower head is at my shoulder height.

So in my scientific assessment, yes, you;re right.

Thanks all! It was the male/female torso/legs thing I wasn't too sure about. Can find heaps of data but not much of it is user-friendly, especially looking at the proportions.

tiggs121; I teach at a high school in Fife. Sadly, I'd be fibbing if I said I'd be teaching this to fully engaged, perfectly behaved, interested, hungry to learn second year classes…

ck; love your assessment!

I teach in the Borders and some of my kids are fully engaged, perfectly behaved, interested and hungry to learn but some are the exact opposite.

I have used a bike to show how anthropometric data is used and it works well as a teaching aid. Easy to be side tracked of course!

cheers

I'm sure the lads in your class will be able to point you to some useful web pages relating to the size of the female torso……..

Nice to see teachers putting stuff in a fun way to learn, keep it up! Good teachers are worth their weight in gold.

I think if you show the kids a bike, some Hornby 00, and a smut mag, and put them alongside and some shoes, a handbag, and a copy of heat magazine, ask the kids which ones interest men and women, you'll be able to show the biggest difference between the sexes.

were known to be male (war grave)

how do they know women weren't fighting too ?

3 – Women have proportionally longer legs and shorter torsos

you've never been to Stoke then?

If it would help, i have my 'metric handbook' at work, i could scan in the couple of tables for women and men on the various proportions and email them over

Smaller hands, manifested in short reach brake levers and different grips.. Wider pelvis – wider saddle..

You are right re the legs too I think. Women's bikes (should) also have shorter cranks, lighter springs in coil forks.. can also be lighter built like the SC hardtail..

Also they often come in girly colours and have pretty flowers and stuff. That's possibly the most interesting difference from a scientific point of view…

Lord Summerisle; that'd be fantastic – especially if it has data on proportions as oppose to just dimensions.

molgrips; that's pretty much what I'm hoping to get them to work out, in stages.

And in the hope of wowing some of the girls, and get them engaged.

You dirty old bastard, honestly! 😉

http://www.ergonomics4schools.com/lzone/anthropometry.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropometry

I'm glad my teachers had to do proper research for my lessons and not just STW a SWAG of an answer.

TooTall – that's your opinion and you're entitled to it.

I had actually come across both of your links, however neither contain anything I don't know (or haven't researched) and neither contain male/female proportion and comparison data – what I'm particularly after; hence my post.

Anything more to add, or did you just want to sound like a ****?

This may not be enormously helpful but if you take a look at Human Factors you may come across some useful data on male/ female proportions.

HH – just emailed a PDF of the chapter in the Metric Handbook, tho from what you say it might not be quite what your after.

But it does give 5th 50th and 95th percentiles for men and women in a table next to each other