Talk:Human weight
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The statistics here, like on the "Human" page are all about U.S. population, which is unlikely equivalent to statistics about the general human population. Does anyone have any idea what the average person (globally) weighs?
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[edit] Self-Contradictions & Inaccuracies
The opening paragraphs and the bottom table contradict each other. Please fix this. The data is also wrong in the paragraphs unless my Med School textbooks are the incorrect ones. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.36.95.120 (talk) 17:34, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Weight in Britain
I changed the part about the stone being "fairly common" to "common" as I think that is more accurate. Weights are nearly always given in stones here. MyNameIsClare talk 20:08, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Issues
I removed the explanation of the difference between scientific and other definitions of weight because it's irrelevant to the article. Maybe a disambiguation link at the top would be better. Dave 06:46, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merging needed?
Content is spread out and partially duplicated among Human weight, Obesity and Body Mass Index, perhaps some merging would be in order. --Frank Lofaro Jr. 18:25, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
- I agree with you. In particular, there are three paragraphs about BMI that are not terribly accurate, but should really be left to editing in the BMI article itself. I am removing them. Chartreuse green 02:51, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Source
What is the source for the data about average US weights?
[edit] Unrealisticly low
Is just me or are these weights in the article unrealisticly low? I mean....99 - 141 lbs is AVERAGE for a MALE teenager?!?! maybe in a 3rd world country. I'm sorry but a 99lb male teenager is just not average..in fact it's anarexic....hell it's not average for a female teenager, let alone a male. even 141 is fairly slender for a male teenager. Teenager refers to ages 13-17 obviously, so maybe 141lbs is average for early teens (13-14) but NOT 15-17. Back when I was a teenager I was around 120-130(early teens) and 135-145(during late teens), and I was always considered to be very skinny by almost everyone. Also i'm not buying 120-140lb being average for an adult woman, although I can understand why one would think so since on surveys women ether lie or under themselves reguarding weight.
- Agreed - Americans are not representative of the human average - I've an old national geographic that claims the global average is 150 lbs for males and 120 lbs for females, with heights of 5'9" and 5'3" respectively - a believeable quantity. Either way, the article needs a more global perspective - I'll see what I can dig up. WilyD 21:29, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
- 88 lbs fr Finnish women on avergae? Can we get a source for that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.165.213.73 (talk) 04:12, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
- Regarding ages of teenagers. Aren't the teen years technically thirteen through nineteen?
- Regarding weights of USA male teenagers. When I entered 10th grade in high school at age 15 I was weighed in at the first day of my gym class at 95 pounds, my height was 5'3". During the same day in that gym class I did 20 pull-ups and bench pressed 150 pounds. I was kinda scrawny compared to some of the other kids but not as scrawny as some. I graduated three years later (1976) at age 18 with a weight of 165 pounds and a height of 5'9". I could do 30 pull-ups and bench 225 pounds. Ah to be in that shape again.
- As I understand it females tend to have a growth spurt in junior-high (grades 7-9) and males tend to have theirs year or two later. I do not think it is unusual or unrealistic at all for weights to change dramatically during the teen years.
- Regarding weights for Finnish women. 88 pounds does sound incredibly low.--Portknocker 01:49, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Rising at an Alarming Rate
I agree that many news outlets write about the "Obesity Epidemic", and talk about "Alarming Rates", and so on. But it is not encyclopedic to describe it as "alarming", and I think that more neutral words should be used so this remains NPOV. I changed it to "increasing". Chartreuse green 04:51, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mass/Weight Differentiation
The beginning of this article doesn't make sense at all, viz "weight is a measurement of mass." Weight is a measure of force and therefore should take units of Newtons (force) not Kilograms (mass). Just pick one or the other.
- 142.59.117.80 04:29, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
Agreed, pounds are a unit of force, not mass. I think that should be changed somehow. --67.50.186.29 21:49, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] pounds/kg
in the chart comparing the weight of women in canada/finland/usa, britain.....the Canadian women weigh more than American women in pounds, but the American women weigh more in Kg??? i don't know which number on there is the incorrect one, so maybe someone should figure out the right numbers —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.196.192.33 (talk) 20:52, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Relevant source not cited/used
There has been a UK national size survey in 2004, Size UK, supported by the UK government and various stores. Academics (acording to their website) surveyed the size of people in the UK using 11,000 subjects and 3D whole body scanners. On the average weight, it is reported in the BBC website, based on the Size UK study as "In the UK, a woman's average weight is 10 stone 3.5 lbs (65 kg); in the United States, an average woman weighs 11 stone 1.5lbs (71 kg)." - BBC News Website based on [[1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bigcitydeserter (talk • contribs) 16:34, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] The other 75% of the world
Under 'Human Weight' I would expect to find a little bit broader sampling not just a sprinkling of the Western World. This article lacks in more ways than one. I urge whoever initiated this article to put on their thinking cap and try to expand the scope of the information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Iconoclast.horizon (talk • contribs) 06:19, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
