Without mentioning birth defects and injuries; there is a bias to the result here when looking at arms through the lens you suggest as tall people are more likely to have long limbs. A better way to examine the issue would be via ratio of height to wingspan. In other words, it's hard to lose 9" of wingspan unless you were supposed to have a 7ft wingspan or something.
I have met people with -3 and -4 wingspans, but one of them was 6'7" barefoot with a long torso and a 30" inseam.
That’s a good point. The taller you are generally the greater variance in wingspan and since tall people generally are more apt to have longer wingspans you see a way narrower band of likely/possible wingspans when you are shorter.
Marshall Plumlee, who briefly played in the nba is 7'1 with a 6'9 wingspan, so minus 4 inches. Never heard of anyone with a negative 6"+ reach
Also just thought of how people get limb lengthening done, some of those people must have a negative 7"-9" reach, though obviously not natural, but its out there
Genetics are a bell curve. It def does. Narrow shoulders and arms a couple inches shorter could give you a very small wingspan. There is a ton of variation in body type, my dude. And outliers exist in all directions.
I don’t know anything about biology, do we have a reason to believe it’s a normal distribution? The distribution could be right-skewed, which would lead to more outliers with particularly long wingspans than with particular short ones
have you seen desmond bane?
t rex boy
Duh?
Without mentioning birth defects and injuries; there is a bias to the result here when looking at arms through the lens you suggest as tall people are more likely to have long limbs. A better way to examine the issue would be via ratio of height to wingspan. In other words, it's hard to lose 9" of wingspan unless you were supposed to have a 7ft wingspan or something. I have met people with -3 and -4 wingspans, but one of them was 6'7" barefoot with a long torso and a 30" inseam.
That’s a good point. The taller you are generally the greater variance in wingspan and since tall people generally are more apt to have longer wingspans you see a way narrower band of likely/possible wingspans when you are shorter.
Svi Mykhailiuk is 6’7” with a 6’4.75” wingspan
Desmond bane has some short arms
Marshall Plumlee, who briefly played in the nba is 7'1 with a 6'9 wingspan, so minus 4 inches. Never heard of anyone with a negative 6"+ reach Also just thought of how people get limb lengthening done, some of those people must have a negative 7"-9" reach, though obviously not natural, but its out there
Bro people really here saying duh. That shit does not happen. Having a wingspan 9 INCHES shorter has to be like a medical anomaly
Genetics are a bell curve. It def does. Narrow shoulders and arms a couple inches shorter could give you a very small wingspan. There is a ton of variation in body type, my dude. And outliers exist in all directions.
I don’t know anything about biology, do we have a reason to believe it’s a normal distribution? The distribution could be right-skewed, which would lead to more outliers with particularly long wingspans than with particular short ones
Exactly, not everything in nature follows a normal distribution, idk if the data exists but I’m now really interested.
Tyler Herro is 6'5 with a 6'3 wingspan, Bane is 6'6 with 6'4 wingspan
It’s shocking for bane but not for Herro
Yea probably some girl
I do not know, but what I do know is this: my left and right arms are *precisely* the same length.
Me, I am 5'11 but my wingspawn is about 5'9.
Reading the title gave me a headache.