that if you measure the height of a child when they are exactly two and a half years of age, that measurement is exactly half of what their adult height will be? Cool
2007-11-24 22:29:55 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Wow, what skeptics you all seem to be!
OK, you asked for facts...
It's based on the The Fels Longitudinal Study 1929-1991 but there are some other sources:
Predicting Adult Stature Without Using Skeletal Age: The Khamis-Roche Method
by H.J. Khamis and A.F. Roche
Pediatrics, October 1994
and
http://www.kidsgrowth.com/resources/advicedetail.cfm?id=1326
and
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1259894
2007-11-25 08:58:36 · update #1
may be true
2007-11-24 23:54:08 · answer #1 · answered by tarlochan tanda paprola 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rubbish.
2007-11-25 06:42:24 · answer #2 · answered by blue_zoo22 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't buy that. Sources? Is that a hard fact?
2007-11-25 06:32:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
u would ave to be a small adult were did u get dat from
2007-11-25 06:35:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
are u sure
2007-11-25 06:35:17 · answer #5 · answered by just me 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First question: No
My question: evidence please.
2007-11-25 11:24:27 · answer #6 · answered by za 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋