Question about the lifestyles study

Here is the famous lifestyles penis length study:

http://www.mrav … com/results.htm
http://www.free -condom-stuff.c … on/research.htm

Since only 300 people participated, how can you have 0.1% measurements? 0.1% of 300 is 0.3… I also noticed two other fishy things:

1. There was no indication of whether this was bone pressed or non-bone pressed measurements.
2. This is a subtle point but the mean was presented as 5.877. That’s 4 significant figures. For anyone who is science or engineering inclined, it should at least ring an alarm bell about the quality of this research.

My understanding is that this information is not the “raw data” from the test, it is a table of how the data collected would most likely apply to the general population.

Thanks cantlook,

Where did you learn this and do you have any idea how they went from the raw data to this information? I tried looking but couldn’t find the actual study or raw data itself.

There is a link in the Mr. Average page that you referenced that will take you to this page that goes into a little more detail, but as far as how they determined the tables, that I do not know. :)