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You might think this was a skewed sample and it was, but there were 50,000 observations and the projected final height of the kids is only about three inches shorter than that of British veterans of the Revolutionary War, also a biased sample (upward)https://twitter.com/crimkadid/status/1319499625485766656 …
The condition of 19th century London were so atrocious as to be almost unparalleled. The English are comparatively tall, genetically speaking, and yet only two comparable samples out of 81 have ever recorded lower heightspic.twitter.com/B5E19vw70D
When children are malnourished they tend to grow at a slower velocity and reach the puberty growth spurt later. This was not true of the Marine Society children, which suggests that their height was programmed from infancy, possibly due to laudanum poisoning:pic.twitter.com/ts0oNbLBuE
There are things about the past that can't be true: it can't be that Bavarian mothers didn't breastfeed their children, it can't be true that working class Londoners put their crying children to sleep with opium. But they did: this was the poor 19th century version of daycare:pic.twitter.com/HmnOv9FVPd
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