RBWells comments on 2.06 meters tall volleyball player Anna Smrek (1.60m man next to her for scale)

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was complaining that I thought my kids would all be my height or a little taller because my ex was a little bit taller than me, so should they not be the average of our heights?

My kid who did genetics in school says no, the average result is add mom and dads heights, divide by 2 but then add 10cm for boys, subtract 10cm for girls. So if I wanted girls my height I would need a man taller than me. And boy children would likely end up taller than either of us.

Obviously it's not an unbreakable rule, but a likely result.

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[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

If I do your formula I would be around 186cm tall. I am in fact around 196. My brothers do fall more in line with one being 184 and the other 182.

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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

My parents had a big height gap, mom 163 in cm, dad 193. So the average is 178. My sister is 178cm, I am 175. I guess that's why I expected my daughters to be the average of our heights. My brothers are 188 cm. So all of us are in between the heights of the parents but there's a lot of "in between".

My mom's parents were actually both quite tall though, her mom my height, which for back then was really tall, she (my mom) told me she kept expecting to get taller than her mom like the rest of her friends and it never happened.

And my dad's parents were both quite short, about 165cm and all their kids as tall as my dad, so obviously there are other factors. I have no idea why my dad and his brothers were so tall. Like nearly a whole foot taller than both their parents.

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