62 A BIOMETRIC STUDY OF BASAL METABOLISM IN MAN. 



For Oxford men, E. Schuster 68 found the following correlations 

 between height and weight, the latter unfortunately taken with the 

 clothing except the boots : 



Age 18, AT = 129, 

 Age 19, AT = 330, 

 Age 20, N = 209, 

 Age 21, IV = 137, 

 Age 22, N= 95, 



r = 0.50 = 0.04 

 r = 0.63 0.02 

 r = 0.68 = 0.03 

 r = 0.76 = 0.02 

 r = 0.72 =0.03 



General average. . . 0.66 



For stature and body-weight in 2502 British convicts, weighed in 

 trousers and shirt only, Goring 69 finds : 



r wl = 0.555 



=0.009 



Again for height and weight in 500 male criminals examined by 

 Goring, the correlations deduced by Whiting 70 are: 



For stature and weight r,-u= 0.580 = 0.020 



For stature and weight with age constant. . . . a r fw = 0.583 =0.020 



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STATURE IN CENTIMETERS 



DIAGRAM 4. Variation in mean body-weight of men and women with stature. 



I Our'correlations for men are, roughly speaking, of the same order 

 of ^magnitude as those which have been published by others. Unfortu- 

 nately, only^Pearson's small series of women, but slightly larger than 

 our own, is available for comparison. The agreement here is not good. 

 Only further work on the relationship between stature and body-weight 

 in women will answer the question of the degree of correlation to be 

 expected between these two physical characters. 



M Schuster, Biometrika, 1911, 8, p. 51. 



69 Goring, The English Convict, Lond., 1913, p. 389. 



70 Whiting, Biometrika, 1915, 11, p. 8. 



