Tall Requirements and "Small" Reality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4216552 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Boris N Mironov, Б Н Миронов (0000-0001-8559-0019, Saint-Petersburg Institute of History, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 80-90 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2672989 |
| OpenAlex | W2329341953 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 1 |
In my view, the skeptical comments of Steven L. Hoch, whether intentionally or not, undeservedly discredit human height data as an indicator of the physiological status and well-being of populations, and possibly represent the historiographical appearance of a postmodern intellectual ideology, whose representatives look with distrust on historical sources. Hoch repeats some traditional objections connected with data on height: 1) terminal height-that is, the height a person attains by the age of 20 to 25-is not a true indicator of the physiological status and well-being of a population; 2) the precision of height data falls below the standard scientific requirements for reliable indicators; 3) periodization of the dynamics of physiological status of the population and of basic data on height is impossible in principle; 4) the reasons for changes in physiological status cannot be subjected to rigorous analysis
Archaeology · Distrust · Economics · Epistemology · Ideology · Periodization · Political science · Population · Positive economics · Postmodernism · Skepticism · Sociology · Birth, Development, and Health · Demography · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2009 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |