Are Hormones Making Us Shorter?

Discussion

 

Suggestions to better our study:

  • If we were to repeat this study, we would want to have a larger sample, to reduce the amount of bias we ran into, from all of the people in our sample happening to be fairly tall.
  • Also, we would want to select a sample from a different population that consists of more adults, since some teens have not completely stopped growing yet.
  • One other factor to consider would be the region.  Because of different ethnic groups and different people living in different regions, the average heights of people are different for different regions.  We were comparing only from a population in Northeastern Ohio against the entire United States population.