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From: Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Helmet efficacy test
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:32:19 -0400
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On 3/25/2025 2:02 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:13:27 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I was more intrigued by his claim "they fit American hands!"
>>
>> I know Americans in generally are fatter than most of the world, but
>> does this apply to our hands as well?
> 
> Variations in hand sizes follow shoe sizes.  The local hardware store
> has a wide variety of work and gardening gloves.  Mostly, I use gloves
> for firewood handling.  Unfortunately, the only gloves that fit me
> properly are Women's Small or Medium.  Men's Small fingers are too
> long.  I became somewhat proficient at altering and stitching the
> glove fingers, but at about 2 hrs per pair, I gave up and have
> resigned myself to wearing pink, purple and flower design leather
> gloves.  I have a similar problem with pianos where an octave span is
> a stretch.
> 
> "Whose hands are biggest? You may be surprised."
> <https://www.nablu.com/2022/03/whose-hands-are-biggest-you-may-be.html>
> Scroll down to the table and graph in the middle of the document.
> Notice the wide range in hand sizes.  The authors sources of data and
> sample sizes are not very good, but does show that there are
> differences in hand sizes.
> 
> Hand size is also an issue with smartphone screen sizes:
> "How Large is Your Phone? A Cross-cultural Study of Smartphone Comfort
> Perception and Preference between Germans and Chinese"
> <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351978915003558>

Going on an assumption with dubious evidence, Andrews demographics 
stereo typically are from eastern Europe. Id also assume therefore that 
his customers hands are therefore on the large size according to the 
Nablu page.


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