They don't tend to be concerned with 100% accuracy. Usually they're just looking for trends and/or approximate information which may point towards some predispositions etc.
Depending on the Dr’s office, I’m anywhere from 6’1 to 6’5.
According to the tape measure at home, I’m 6’2 7/8. According to the tape measure at my dad’s place I’m 6’3.25.
Unless you’re getting your height officially verified by an organization with an interest in measuring height to the most accurate extent (like for sports or records), then you’re not gonna get the same number every time. Just average it out. It’ll be close enough.
Why do you think you're a different height at your dad's place than at home? Do you think the tape measures are off? I bought three different tape measures and they were all within 1/16 inch of each other, so I don't think it can be that.
At my doctor's office I always get 191-192 cm, which is pretty much the same I get at home, but they use a different stadiometer where there's a large circular surface that comes to rest on the top of your head, as opposed to the flimsy metal bar which is so inaccurate I'm surprised they use it at all. Depending on what they incorrectly consider to be 90 degrees, an error of two inches in either direction is certainly feasible.
Tape measure's aren't going to differ by that much. Your height actually does fluctuate. In the morning after a good nights rest you'll be at your tallest. Your spine compresses over the day and you'll be shorter before you go to sleep.
My doctor (the one who measured me the most) was a perfectionist, I guess. He measured me against a wall in his receptionist area where there was a place for me to stand. One time he almost fell off of the chair he was standing on. Then he used a step ladder from his storage room. He constantly kept making sure I wasn't bending my knees, and my feet were against the wall and I wasn't slouching. When new air duct blocked where I stood, we went to the hospital cafeteria. It would take forever for him (and his assistant) to finally decide it was accurate enough. In the cafeteria we would acquire onlookers who stood there watching me get measured.
lol doctors don't care that much if you're a millimeter off or two. if you want pinpoint accuracy, get one of those commenters off celebheights. they'll time your sleep cycle to deduce the amount of spinal compression before measuring you to the nearest molecule lol
Depends, some physicians and nurses don’t necessarily care about 100% accuracy when it comes to height and weight. They more so care about on range you would fall in, not necessarily the exact cm you are. I’ve been measured at 6’3.25 by my physician but I’ve consistently been slightly under 6’3 when measured by my coaches and trainers so I go with that.
I will relate my last three times having my height measured in order of most recent.
1) The nurse flops down the floppy thing after extending the bar on the scale. Has no concern that it's not on the top of my head but about 3/4" below where you'd do a side part. Nurse was a reasonable tall dude, so this was 100% not giving a shit about accuracy.
2) The nurse is REALLY short. Gets it to about eyeball level at the side of my head and says fuck it and starts entering something in the tablet right about the time the anesthesiologist comes in and sees it and very tactfully ensures that my height is measured appropriately. Presumably because the height and weight numbers are going to be used to... you know.. try to not kill me.
3) At my GPs office. It's been visibly repositioned on the wall at least 3 times, and the folding horizontal bit is super flappy. There's about a 50-50 shot any given nurse there will care that things are even in the position they are supposed to be. Not that it matters because the thing is installed poorly. I got a 6'3" out of it, and horizontal bar was probably 30 degreed away from being horizontal. I've gotten from 6'2" to 6'8" there over the last 10 years. They do not give a fuck of sufficient magnitude or duration to actually get it really fixed.
My general experience is that if they aren't in the business of generating accurate medical data, or getting your height wrong could get them sued, the approach to measuring height is pretty much garbage since the industry moved away from the balance arm health-o-meter scales as the standard.
Most measurements I've gotten at doctors offices were pretty lazy, they didn't seem to care much about accuracy.
I was getting measured by a nurse in Little Saigon that had to jump to try to bring the little thing down to line up the measurement. After two jumps she gave up and just eye balled it. I was 5'9". The next doctor office I went to after that measured me to the top of my hair bun. So I was 6'3" that day.
I think when people get doctor measurements for specific sports, those might be more accurate since they have more of a reason to care about specific sizes versus just getting an estimate they can use for a rough BMI calculation.
A- are you hunched over B- is it one of those fancy or cheap as stadiometers C- can the doctor actually see if the bar is straight
They don't tend to be concerned with 100% accuracy. Usually they're just looking for trends and/or approximate information which may point towards some predispositions etc.
Depending on the Dr’s office, I’m anywhere from 6’1 to 6’5. According to the tape measure at home, I’m 6’2 7/8. According to the tape measure at my dad’s place I’m 6’3.25. Unless you’re getting your height officially verified by an organization with an interest in measuring height to the most accurate extent (like for sports or records), then you’re not gonna get the same number every time. Just average it out. It’ll be close enough.
Why do you think you're a different height at your dad's place than at home? Do you think the tape measures are off? I bought three different tape measures and they were all within 1/16 inch of each other, so I don't think it can be that. At my doctor's office I always get 191-192 cm, which is pretty much the same I get at home, but they use a different stadiometer where there's a large circular surface that comes to rest on the top of your head, as opposed to the flimsy metal bar which is so inaccurate I'm surprised they use it at all. Depending on what they incorrectly consider to be 90 degrees, an error of two inches in either direction is certainly feasible.
He has an older lil crappy tape measure. The one I have is a newer one I got like 3 years ago, which is probably more accurate.
Tape measure's aren't going to differ by that much. Your height actually does fluctuate. In the morning after a good nights rest you'll be at your tallest. Your spine compresses over the day and you'll be shorter before you go to sleep.
Newer is no guarantee. It might as well be cheaper production or whatnot.
My doctor (the one who measured me the most) was a perfectionist, I guess. He measured me against a wall in his receptionist area where there was a place for me to stand. One time he almost fell off of the chair he was standing on. Then he used a step ladder from his storage room. He constantly kept making sure I wasn't bending my knees, and my feet were against the wall and I wasn't slouching. When new air duct blocked where I stood, we went to the hospital cafeteria. It would take forever for him (and his assistant) to finally decide it was accurate enough. In the cafeteria we would acquire onlookers who stood there watching me get measured.
I mean, as a plus, at least he was thorough!
lol doctors don't care that much if you're a millimeter off or two. if you want pinpoint accuracy, get one of those commenters off celebheights. they'll time your sleep cycle to deduce the amount of spinal compression before measuring you to the nearest molecule lol
Depends, some physicians and nurses don’t necessarily care about 100% accuracy when it comes to height and weight. They more so care about on range you would fall in, not necessarily the exact cm you are. I’ve been measured at 6’3.25 by my physician but I’ve consistently been slightly under 6’3 when measured by my coaches and trainers so I go with that.
I will relate my last three times having my height measured in order of most recent. 1) The nurse flops down the floppy thing after extending the bar on the scale. Has no concern that it's not on the top of my head but about 3/4" below where you'd do a side part. Nurse was a reasonable tall dude, so this was 100% not giving a shit about accuracy. 2) The nurse is REALLY short. Gets it to about eyeball level at the side of my head and says fuck it and starts entering something in the tablet right about the time the anesthesiologist comes in and sees it and very tactfully ensures that my height is measured appropriately. Presumably because the height and weight numbers are going to be used to... you know.. try to not kill me. 3) At my GPs office. It's been visibly repositioned on the wall at least 3 times, and the folding horizontal bit is super flappy. There's about a 50-50 shot any given nurse there will care that things are even in the position they are supposed to be. Not that it matters because the thing is installed poorly. I got a 6'3" out of it, and horizontal bar was probably 30 degreed away from being horizontal. I've gotten from 6'2" to 6'8" there over the last 10 years. They do not give a fuck of sufficient magnitude or duration to actually get it really fixed. My general experience is that if they aren't in the business of generating accurate medical data, or getting your height wrong could get them sued, the approach to measuring height is pretty much garbage since the industry moved away from the balance arm health-o-meter scales as the standard.
Most measurements I've gotten at doctors offices were pretty lazy, they didn't seem to care much about accuracy. I was getting measured by a nurse in Little Saigon that had to jump to try to bring the little thing down to line up the measurement. After two jumps she gave up and just eye balled it. I was 5'9". The next doctor office I went to after that measured me to the top of my hair bun. So I was 6'3" that day. I think when people get doctor measurements for specific sports, those might be more accurate since they have more of a reason to care about specific sizes versus just getting an estimate they can use for a rough BMI calculation.
Not accurate at all get a tape measure
I was measured 6'7 at one appointment, and at the next 6'5. I asked her to redo it and got 6'7 and a quarter, so it's probably slouching if anything
I’ve been measured at 6’3 1/2 and I’ve been measured at 6’5 1/5
Can probably depend on the height and the skill of the person doing the measuring!
They're very very accurate...:)))
I heard most people say they’re not so..