pounds.* Table 5 gives the distribution of the children by 

 weight in five-pound groups for the two-year period 



TABLE 5 



Number and Percentage of Boys and Girls, Ages 14 to 16, for 



Each Five Pounds of Weight; Also Average 



Weights, Standard Deviations and 



Quartile Weights 



Average weight , 



Standard deviation (a) . .. . 



First quartile 



Second quartile (Median). 

 Third quartile 



BOYS 

 (Pounds) 



105.71 



17.25.112 



93.31 

 104.57 

 117.03 



GIRLS 

 (Pounds) 



105.73 



16.00.112 



95.18 

 104.27 

 115.01 



For both boys and girls the lowest weight noted was in the 

 group 65 to 69 pounds; the heaviest boy was over 205 pounds, 

 the heaviest girl over 220 pounds. The distribution of weights, 

 unlike the distribution of heights, is rather skew. 



The average weight in each case is greater than the median. 

 The average weight for boys for the two years under discus- 

 sion is 105.71 pounds; the median, 104.57 pounds. The aver- 

 age for girls is 105.73, and the median 104.27 pounds. 



*The weights of the clothes of the children in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum 

 are as follows: For boys at age fourteen, 6 pounds; at age fifteen, 6.75 

 pounds; for girls, at age fourteen, 4 pounds; and at age fifteen, 4.50 pounds. 



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