How to hang your artwork and not screw it up. ⇒
29 August 2006, early evening
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
29 August 2006, early evening
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
...the 57” standard represents the average human eye-height…
57 inches is 4 feet 9 inches. I’m 178 cm tall (5’10”), which is supposedly average (for male)...but I don’t think my eyes are 13 inches below the top of my head…
by Ryan on August 30 2006, 12:47 am #
I’ll keep that in mind. Damn the internet and it’s maybe not correct information.
by ramanan on August 30 2006, 12:49 am #
I just read that as 5’7”. That might work better.
by martha on August 30 2006, 2:09 pm #
I believe 57 inches corresponds to the eye-height of someone who is about 5’4”. Given that the article is talking about average human eye-height and not average 25 year-old male eye-height, i think it’s reasonable to assume that the 57” is a fair estimate.
by rishi on August 30 2006, 2:27 pm #
Yeah, I cherry-picked the facts a little, but it’s an Internet article written in English, so the young White American was the closest fit the target audience from the list in Wikipedia.
The average height listed for (USA) females is 5’4”, so if it’s 50-50 split then the average “person” is still 5’7”, which is taller. [And even if you’re 5’4” = 64” are your eyes really 7” below the top of your head? Isn’t a head like 10” total. I would say it’s more like 4-5”, so 57” => you are 5’2”, which is below average for all the countries list in the Wikipedia table (Sorry Ramanan! :
)]But that was probably way too much to write about this topic! (Hitting submit is less work that backspacing though… ;)
by Ryan on August 31 2006, 1:18 am #
None of the age samples in this list go lower than 16 years of age.
by rishi on August 31 2006, 2:38 am #
Sorry, I seemed to have skipped over Finland, which included 15 year-olds. I suppose 15 is the youngest age at which art/family photos can be appreciated.
by rishi on August 31 2006, 2:39 am #