MISLEADING
After three years' tests of coalheavers, navvies, students, "white-col-lar" workers, boys and old men—over 13,000 in ail—the Industrial Health Research Board of Great Britain has come to the conclusion that it is not possible to tell anything about a man's physical fitness merely from his appearance. Husky six-footers sometimes turned oftt to be relatively weak, thougTi they were stronger, on the whole, than the clerks and white-collar class. Labourers were not able to grasp weights as tightly as their physique led the investigators to expect. The weight-lifters whose grip was below expectation had hands stiffened by labour. Moreover, grip varied with age. It increased steadily from boyhood to about the age of 20, and declined after 40. Maximum pull/ig power was reached between 25 and 27, and declined after 30.
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Evening Post, Issue 82, 6 April 1936, Page 11
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MISLEADING
Evening Post, Issue 82, 6 April 1936, Page 11
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