eli5 is average height studies objective or subjective?

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I was having a conversation with my best friend and they said that the average height is a subject thing bc in order for it to be objective they need to have study or gotten all the heights from every man in American. I’m not certain how data or stats work. But maybe it’s objective only by those who have been tested on average? Idk how to explain it to them or if I’m wrong help me understand a bit better.

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Well, you don’t need every single person’s height to make an educated and likely guess, no. But anyway there is plenty of ways to get peoples height without actually studying them. First of all if you have a driver’s license your height is public information pretty much everywhere. Every person that’s ever been booked by law enforcement, their height is public record as well. If you sign over your information to a teaching hospital or medical trail your stats would be available to see. There’s plenty of ways to understand average height in a population.

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