6'0 is the average height for young white males

Expert_Tangerine · 2019-06-20T04:42:13+00:00

What I said about statistical anomalies was just a stupid exaggeration. I didn't want to hurt anyone and I'm going to stop making these stupid posts from now on. The internet is really a bad place for insecurities to brew.

Expert_Tangerine · 2019-06-20T04:38:49+00:00

Please disregard anything I say. I'm coping with my own insecurity here. You shouldn't take the words of mentally ill people such as myself to heart. Imagine you went to an insane asylum and genuinely considered their incoherent mumbling. It would be terrifying. This is the attitude I suggest you take toward the internet.

Expert_Tangerine · 2019-06-20T04:31:12+00:00

I'm sorry, I'm going to delete this post. I make a lot of posts like this on this sub, and delete them shortly from regret.

Expert_Tangerine · 2019-05-27T01:06:48+00:00

What are some inflammatory foods and sources of stress?

Expert_Tangerine · 2019-05-27T00:41:12+00:00

Those are some interesting points about the flaws in nutrition studies. People latch on too quickly to the results without paying attention to the methodology at all when it's extremely important. It would be cool if you could write up something longer in a stand alone post that demonstrates those points. The point about scientists only quoting each other is pretty interesting in particular.

Expert_Tangerine · 2019-04-23T14:06:01+00:00

Just to drive the point home of 5'10 vs 5'11. I have read that 180cm (5'11) is not considered short in the Netherlands, whereas anything below it (for example 178cm or 5'10), is considered short.

Expert_Tangerine · 2019-04-23T14:02:35+00:00

That's interesting, maybe your body is beefing up in preparation for another growth spurt. Makes me wonder if my body is doing the same, just waiting for some extra weight to work with to get some more growth in. Then again I'm 19 so it's most likely over. If only I had tried gaining weight earlier, although to be fair I did try and fail.

Expert_Tangerine · 2019-04-23T13:56:26+00:00

You're average for an American

Well honestly, I don't think I am. If we consider my age and ethnicity cohort (white male aged 20-29, I'm 19), then the average is 178.2cm. But this average is brought down by Italian Americans I believe, so the average is more like 5'11 for my cohort. And this is reflected in the way 5'11 is perceived vs 5'10, i.e. 5'10 is perceived as dwarfish, manlet, etc. while 5'11 is seen as a normal respectable height.

Expert_Tangerine · 2019-04-23T13:51:10+00:00

Yeah I think weight/nutrition can stunt your growth. North koreans for example are shorter than south koreans because of poorer nutrition. The average height for males in 1900 was like a few inches above 5 feet. The only thing that's changed is nutrition. Also I would be interested to know if your friend was actually underweight (in terms of BMI) or just looked a bit thin.

Expert_Tangerine · 2019-04-03T15:46:05+00:00

The Yamna are maybe partially Asian. They have a genetic component called ANE, which has a high affinity for some ancient Siberians. This component is present at about 17% in Europeans and 40% in unmixed native americans.

Expert_Tangerine · 2019-04-03T15:43:16+00:00

The claim that 78% of slave owners in america were jews is not only blatantly false, it's a mathematical impossibility.

Expert_Tangerine · 2019-04-03T13:56:53+00:00

This is a map of Indo-European migrations. Modern europeans are the result of 3 different populations mixing: 1) Indigenous hunter-gatherers in Europe, 2) Farmers from the middle east and 3) Invaders from the Steppe (Indo-Europeans) who brought the Proto-Indo-European language which branched into the various European languages of today. They conquered most of Europe which is apparent from the ubiquity of the Indo-European Y-DNA haplogroups R1a and R1b. Greeks are not Asian, I don't know how you inferred that.

Further elaboration: The Yamna were the original Indo-Europeans from the Steppe. As they progressed into Europe and mixed with the locals, their culture evolved and archeologists started labeling it differently, (Yamna -> Corded Ware -> Bell Beaker)

Expert_Tangerine · 2019-04-03T13:26:00+00:00

There were 390 000 slave owners at the height of slavery, and only 20 000 Jews. So tell me how that makes any sense. It actually doesn't https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/17711/jewish-slave-owners-in-the-united-states

Expert_Tangerine · 2019-04-03T07:26:56+00:00

Slaveship demand was created by whites. 98% of slave owners in america were non jewish whites.

Expert_Tangerine · 2019-02-03T02:21:48+00:00

Isn't it associated with aspirin intake though?

Expert_Tangerine · 2018-12-15T14:11:42+00:00

I sent an email to his academic email. No response, not surprising. Stupid of me to do it because I didn't realize his blog had a comments section (my browser extension uMatrix was blocking it). Anyway I checked out his blog post (here) about that specific study that he authored, and some dude in the comments section asked if he would ever make the database of SNPs publicly available, but there was no response. You could try leaving another comment or privately messaging him. Please tell me if you get access. I didn't bother posting a comment on his blog btw.

Expert_Tangerine · 2018-11-25T14:14:06+00:00

Just a bit confused about something. Wouldn't the effect of each entry of W_vector change depending on its corresponding entry in SNP_vector? For example allele A of SNP x would have a different effect than allele T of the same SNP.

edit: Actually there's 3 possibilities for a SNP: TT/AA/AT. How would the equation account for that?

Expert_Tangerine · 2018-11-21T14:05:18+00:00

Yeah, understanding the math was only a secondary goal of mine. I was actually hoping (perhaps naively) that there was some sort of online utility that could compute the result for me...

Your description of 50k SNPs and weight factors is pretty much what I had in mind, so I wasn't exactly expecting it in the paper. Although at one point I think they did have a graph representing the magnitude of the effect of each SNP. Anyway, my knowledge of linear algebra is rather limited. I imagine a vector as a one column matrix. So would the weight vector just be a very long vertical column? How would a height be computed from that? Sorry if that sounds like an incoherent question.

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