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From: Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Helmet efficacy test
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:38:34 -0400
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On 3/25/2025 4:36 PM, AMuzi wrote:
> On 3/25/2025 2:32 PM, Zen Cycle wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
> 
> At our prior location customers skewed younger; tall with big hands and 
> feet.  Here, our rural customers are more likely to actually work with 
> their hands rather than shuffling a mouse around for a half day. That's 
> a bigger difference than national trends IMHO.
> 

Wider deviations from the median should be expected from a smaller data 
set.

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