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Through our everyday experience, we have an intuitive understanding of what a typical body height is for people in the population. In much of the world, adult humans are typically between 1.60 m and 1.80 m tall, while people taller than two meters are rare to meet.

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Plaue, M. (2023). Descriptive statistics. In: Data Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67882-4_2

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