Re: Ass/arse

Joe Fineman wrote:

They are not all the same size. I myself have seen small ones & large
ones. However, according to the literature, they show less variation
on the whole than other parts of the body. Also, there is poor
correlation between erect & flaccid size. As to whether there is any
correlation with the size of other appendages, or with race (another
common subject of folklore), I have never seen any statistical
evidence. Those are things of the kind that people make up, but some
such things turn out to be true.

The 1998 Ig-Nobel Prize for Statistics went to Jerald Bain of Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto and Kerry Siminoski of the University of Alberta, for their carefully measured report, "The Relationship Among Height, Penile Length, and Foot Size".

According to a book I've read it showed a statistical significance, but it wasn't strong enough to work as a predictor.
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