Do French Women tend to be less endowed than other Women?

writes:

but then why in the pics of him with american and british officers is he
of "average" height?

Look again. He was 6'5" tall. In the pictures I see, he is clearly
taller than just about everyone around him.

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Earl Evleth writes:

An interesting side point is that many people feel that Blacks in America
are taller, on the average than Whites. This impression is gathered from
watching basketball.

They _are_ very slightly taller. That's why they are so much more
prominent in basketball. A slight difference in mean height translates
to a large difference at the upper and lower extremes of height, so even
though the average heights aren't too much different, the tallest people
are slightly more likely to be black.

The current feeling is that Blacks are better natural athletes, look
at "all of them" in sports. Again, this might just be a matter of
selection.

No, this is true as well. American blacks tend to be slightly larger,
heavier, and taller than American whites. Not all blacks in this world
are this way, but perhaps American blacks are descended from slaves who
were selected specifically for these characteristics. In any case, the
advantages of this small general difference in the extreme case of
athletics is obvious.

Even so, one notices today, there are not great black cyclists?

Different sports require different abilities, and slight racial
differences give one race or another advantages or disadvantages for
each ability. Blacks have an advantage where height or strength are
handy (and that covers a lot of ground!), but not necessarily in other
domains. Endurance events seem to favor whites a lot more. The same
muscles that are great for sprints are difficult to keep nourished over
endurance events that may last for hours.

Are they not physically fitted for being great cyclists?

Possibly.

Basically, most population groups, if large enough, have a wide
variety of physiques, and they will tend to have the same fraction
of geniuses and idiots, the tall and the short, the fast and the slow.

No, there are clear-cut differences in many characteristics among ethnic
groups. An obvious example is skin color, but there are many other
differences. The larger the populations compared, the more consistent
the differences are (they vanish among individuals, or nearly so).

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devil writes:

Tiny microcosm?

Yes, a tiny microcosm of Europe that reflected the warped upbringings of
some parts of European society (e.g., in Vienna).

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poldy writes:

Yeah isn't that one of the mysteries? The cuisine has a lot of
fat-heavy dishes but the women are slender?

No mystery. Calories are what count, not the percentage of fat in the
diet.

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Earl Evleth writes:

So the human stench has some appreciation. I think it is about
human pheromones.

The natural odors are pleasant-smelling to human beings. It's the odors
produced by bacteria in people who just don't wash often enough that can
become very rank and unpleasant. Even someone who is squeaky clean will
have some odor, but it won't be an unpleasant odor.

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Andromoda893 writes:

By the way, when you talk about French Women being flat
do you mean the French women in France or French Women
in general?

That's pretty much the same thing. If their ancestry is largely
metropolitan French, they tend to have small- to medium-sized breasts.

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On 10/01/04 13:14, in article ,
"Mxsmanic" wrote:

Earl Evleth writes:

An interesting side point is that many people feel that Blacks in America
are taller, on the average than Whites. This impression is gathered from
watching basketball.

They _are_ very slightly taller. That's why they are so much more
prominent in basketball. A slight difference in mean height translates
to a large difference at the upper and lower extremes of height, so even
though the average heights aren't too much different, the tallest people
are slightly more likely to be black.

Maxi, you never reference your stuff!

One set of numbers for the USA is given in.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhanes/hgtmal.pdf Looking at 20 and over.

The study showed that the mean height for Whites and Blacks was 69.5 and
69.3 respectively, with Mexican Americans around 66.8.

If one is looking for tall Whites and Blacks, the 95th percentile
of each group, the numbers are the same, the 74.1 and 74.1 inches.


Hélas, Maxi, your expertise is challenged. :-)

None of what your wrote afterwards (or before) was documented to I assume
that you are writing off the top of your head.

You know the web has good research resources. Try and use them.

Earl

On 10/01/04 13:16, in article ,
"Mxsmanic" wrote:

The natural odors are pleasant-smelling to human beings. It's the odors
produced by bacteria in people who just don't wash often enough that can
become very rank and unpleasant. Even someone who is squeaky clean will
have some odor, but it won't be an unpleasant odor.


Years ago Scientific American had a long article on skin ecology
and I remember that a problem with over washing is that is changes the pH
of the skin and actually promotes staf infections.

I expect that there is a optimum washing frequency, too much or too little
will produce problems.

Earl

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 09:40:57 +0100, Magda wrote:

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 05:16:03 GMT, in rec.travel.europe, arranged some
electrons, so they looked like this :

... and walk more.
...
... walk to the market
...
... walk to the metro
...
... walk to the office (from the metro)

Climb stairs.

I am surprised no one has mentioned yet having sex once in a while.

(Or are we back to the Freud thread?)

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 13:14:45 +0100, Mxsmanic wrote:

devil writes:

Tiny microcosm?

Yes, a tiny microcosm of Europe that reflected the warped upbringings of
some parts of European society (e.g., in Vienna).

You have not read the man, have you? After going thru "The Interpretation
of Dreams," (not necessarily the exact title), I started looking at the
folks around in a different way. An eye opener, believe me.

What percentage of (say American) females do you think truly enjoy sex? To
what extent does guilt stand in the way?

What percentage of the boys are unable to perform with a female whom they
respect? (Reconciling "purity" of the mother figure and the necessity of
sex to make her a mother.)