Can the height of a man be calculated for his hand print ?

Sachindra Boruah Sat Nov 17, 2012 4:49 am

Hello;

I am new to this group and a learner .Can the height of a man or woman be calculated from the legth of the palm ???

**Martijn (admin)** Sat Nov 17, 2012 9:23 am

Hello Sachindra Boruah,

Welcome at this forum and thank you for your question!

Yes, hand length has a high correlation with body height; various studies revealed that this correlation is close to 0.70 (when male and females are seperately studied), and by average hand length is often close to about 11.5% of body height (but may vary from 10% to 14%), see:
- http://www.legalmedicinejournal.com/article/S1344-6223(08)00022-9/abstract
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ca.20146/abstract

But the variation in individuals is quite large, so despite these correlations one can not assess stature reliably from hand length in an individual - despite that studies of course do present rather high correlations.

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PS. By the way, maybe it would be interesting for other members to hear a bit more regarding the purpose of your question: where does your question origin from?

Also, even combining hand length with foot length may turn out not to present much better results for predicting stature (body height); in the following study from Nigeria the correlation is below 0.70 see:
http://www.ispub.com/journal/the-internet-journal-of-forensic-science/volume-3-number-1/sexual-dimorphism-in-hand-and-foot-length-indices-stature-ratio-and-relationship-to-height-in-nigerians.html#sthash.zWr3vVTs.dpbs

Can the height of a man be calculated for his hand print ? Sexual-dimorphism-in-hand-and-foot-length-indices-stature-ratio-and-relationship-to-height-in-nigerians.article-g06.ns

Can the height of a man be calculated for his hand print ? Sexual-dimorphism-in-hand-and-foot-length-indices-stature-ratio-and-relationship-to-height-in-nigerians.article-g06.ns

Sachindra Boruah Sun Nov 18, 2012 4:47 pm

Thanks for your Input. I have taken some data it is varies form 9 times to 10.5 time of length of the palm from Bracelet to tip of middle finger.

Regards

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