User talk:Dcmucci

Why did you change the height of Austrlia? Check the sources.

Here's the date from page 11 of the ABS source - I have placed the self-reported and measured values in bold
I changed the height for Australia because the values quoted in the article for 18+ adults are the self-reported values rather than the measured values. The measured values were the ones that I entered and are indeed the more accurate (please refer to the reference report that the figures have been drawn from). It seems that on average, from the referred-to report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, it was found that males overstated there height by about 2.1 cm and femails by about 1.3cm. Please see below for the figures taken directly from the source:

MALES Mean height (cm) Self-reported 179.9 177.8 176.0 174.3 176.9 Measured 178.4 176.3 174.0 170.4 174.8

FEMALES Mean height (cm) Self-reported 164.9 163.4 162.3 160.8 162.7 Measured 163.9 162.9 161.2 156.9 161.4

I believe that this article is quoting the self-reported values and is therefore inaccurately representing the facts as sourced by the report. Am I missing something?