In this activity students explore the relationships between body measurements. Within marital relationships body weight was a multifaceted and dynamic topic eliciting extensive discussion during interviews. Salient themes emerging from our analysis were the core category body weight relationships and the key categories weight relevance weight comparisons and weight talk. In this activity students will investigate simple proportional relationships among the measurements of various body parts. Explore ratios through femur thigh bone and height measurements. Asks students to measure their height and length of 3 major bones and look for relationships or patterns between the numbers.
Allometry is the study of the relationship of body size to shape anatomy physiology and finally behaviour first outlined by otto snell in 1892 by darcy thompson in 1917 in on growth and form and by julian huxley in 1932. Femur bone connected to the. The basic statistical analysis of survey respondents provides that among weight and feet length feet length has stronger relationship with height as compared to weight and the coefficient of. Most pairs of body dimensions are roughly linearly related and consequently in such cases the correlation coefficient may be used as a measure of the degree of the linear relationship. A decrease in body weight of 3 kg corresponded to a 345 cm decrease in waist circumference in men and a 283 cm decrease in that in women. Changes in body weight significantly correlated with changes in waist circumference changes in hip circumference and changes in body fat percentage.
Women who cohabitate but arent married only gain. All you need is a tape measure some string or rope a piece of paper a pen or pencil and of course a few bodies. Here students may give a table of correlation coefficients of some subset of the body dimensions with say correlations for women above the diagonal and correlations for men below the diagonal. A ratio compares the relation in degree size or number of two or more things. Most pairs of body dimensions are roughly linearly related and consequently in such cases the correlation coefficient may be used as a measure of the degree of the linear relationship. Total height is equivalent to 7 to 75 heads tall nose length is equivalent to first two digits of indexpointer finger.
For example consider the following correlations for an average adult may vary somewhat for children. One study that tracked the weights of over 8000 peoplefound that on average married women gain 24 pounds in the first five years of marriage. Comments on the exercises. They learn to express the relationship as a formula.
Gallery of Body Measurement Relationships
