Heights and weights of British businessmen.

Modelling the hare and the tortoise: predicting the range of in-vehicle task times using critical path analysis

“…A brief review of many of the studies from which these data were drawn was undertaken and this showed that sample sizes for the original data collection varied from approximately three to 52 participants (Busswell 1922, Fitts 1954, Peterson and Peterson 1959, Sperling 1960, Averbach and Coriell 1961, Murdock 1961, Fitts and Posner 1967, Darwin et al 1972, Sternberg 1975. Anthropometric data are usually based on much larger samples, for example, height and weight measurements from 10,020 British adults (Rosenbaum and Skinner 1985), skinfold measurements of 4049 British businessmen (Richardson and Pincherle 1969) and height and weight measurements from 13,645 American adults aged 18-74 (Abraham 1979). An aim for HCI modelling research must be to produce a database of times for interaction parameters which is drawn from a large and representative sample, similar to much of the anthropometric data available today.…”

Heights and weights of men visiting a public health exhibition.

“…A group of medical students seen earlier (Lawther, Brooks, and Waller, 1970) were 4 cm taller than members of the City sample aged 20-24, and the part-time students (aged 15-19) in the present study were about 1 cm taller than the rest of the sample in that age range. A further comparison can be made with results from a sample of businessmen measured during the 1960s (Richardson and Pincherle, 1969). These are shown in the upper curve in Figure 1, and the means are about 2 cm above those in our series.…”

“…The men in our series were very similar in weight to those in the Birmingham sample up to age 40, but they were a little heavier in the fifties. Our upper age ranges contained a substantial proportion of businessmen, and the sample of businessmen alone (Richardson and Pincherle, 1969) was heavier at all ages. Khosla and Lowe (1968) found that men measured at a South Wales steel works in 1965 were heavier, in relation to their height, than those in the Birmingham sample measured in 1960.…”

Skinfold measurements of obesity in British businessmen

“…Regression analysis showed a significant fall in mean triceps skinfold with age; however, this seems to be mostly accounted for by the 55-64 age group and could represent a cohort effect. We showed previously (Richardson & Pincherle, 1969) that when the mean weight was adjusted for height using the age-specific regression equation, a steady increase of weight with age was apparent. This is due to the fall in mean height of the older age groups.…”