Hedgehog (guest) meinte am 22. Mar, 05:19:
Those girls are HUGE! :)
Quotes from the paper:"Experiment 1. Method. Participants
Participants were 75 undergraduate women at Duke University <...> Mean weight was 299.2 kg (SD=24.3), ranging from 198 to 481 kg..."
"Experiment 1. Method. Participants
Participants were 82 undergraduate students at the University of Michigan <...> For women... mean weight was 300.9 kg..."
It doesn't look like a simple pound-to-kilo conversion error to me.
cb (guest) antwortete am 22. Mar, 19:12:
I don't think they make swimsuits that big, but if so, I'm glad I wasn't administering the test!
JoshC (guest) antwortete am 27. Mar, 20:20:
It's absolutely a conversion error. Somebody multiplied pounds by 2.2 to get kg instead of dividing. Dividing those astronomical numbers by 2.2 and rounding a bit yielded a mean of 136 lb (SD=11), range 90-219 lb, which is quite reasonable.The proper conversion would have yielded approximately 62 kg mean (5 kg SD), range 41-99 kg.
