alt Hacker NewsI’ve lived in Australia and France and I’ve always attributed the taller size of Australians to the excellent state of their ventilation in buildings. Vents (and rooms themselves) are systematically bigger than in France, and if you live in a healthy environment, with meat, lots out outdoors during teen age, and correctly ventilated classrooms during their 20 best years, it makes no secret to me that they grew bigger.
Meanwhile in France we heat classrooms by stacking 35 kids in a confined space. It saves on heating, plus condensation that makes windows opaque helps pupils concentrate on the blackboard, as teachers said during my childhood.
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> it makes no secret to me that they grew bigger
That sounds like something you made up to justify your beliefs…
So how does any of that relate to height? From what data I could quickly find, both countries are essentially equal in average height.
France is indeed ridiculously bad at ventilation (not to mention air conditioning). Restaurants, offices, even gyms - most have bad to non-existing ventilation. Coming from the States this is just insanity.
> I’ve lived in Australia and France and I’ve always attributed the taller size of Australians to the excellent state of their ventilation in buildings. Vents (and rooms themselves) are systematically bigger than in France
The average male height in France is 178.60 cm, while in Australia it is 178.77 cm:
* https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-h...
Some sources even have France being higher than Australia:
* https://ourworldindata.org/human-height