User blog comment:Sprinklemist/Sprink's Seventeenth All-Star (And, please help a Sprink out with some TDAthletics reunion questions)/@comment-1956487-20110816035842/@comment-1874924-20110817042446

Returning to the comments on how tall people are, the last I heard (probably 20 or so years ago) the U.S. average was 5-9 for adult men and 5-4 for adult women, so Lal's 5-6.5 is actually a good deal taller than average. There's a lot of ethnic variation, though. For example, the average Swede in Minnesota is probably taller than the average Irishman in Boston.