Originally Posted by Para-Goomba
Where did you read the details?
As I specified here, I read the full text of another study (#8 in my list) that specified that the Wessells study’s 5-inch figure was bone-pressed.
In any case, looking across all the studies, I would agree that 5” is closer to the NBP average — for Americans, anyway — than it is to the BP average.
I first saw the details in a link provided by sprintman in this thread:
/forum/showthre … ?t=10032&page=5
It was in post #72. However, now the link took me to something that doesn’t look familiar and I couldn’t find the clearly explained study and detailed chart of Wessells. Notice in post # 73 beowulf states they are nbp, which includes Wessells. In post # 74, I roughly convert to inches, and in post #76 I’m more precise coming up with 6 3/16 (just short of 6 1/4).
I now notice that sprintman’s # 71 post was to a site thread that also looked at Wessells study. I somehow missed that link the first time I think-I don’t recall seeing it back then. CharlieBear converts the measurements, and toward the the bottom of the page states that functional length plus fat pad was 6.20 (also just short of 6 1/4).
Wessells study was very clearly explained as to what he did and clearly charted. I searched google some just now, but didn’t find it in complete detail like I’ve seen before.