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Somatotype data can be statistically analyzed.<br />

Proportionality is the relationship of body parts, one to<br />

another or to the whole body.<br />

Middle distance runners tend to be long in the legs and<br />

arms, short in the trunk and narrow in the hips. “Long”,<br />

“short” and “narrow” are subjective evaluations based<br />

on some kind of metaphorical model of a human.<br />

A simple device for achieving this type of comparison is<br />

the unisex Phantom devised by Ross and Wilson and<br />

updated by Ross and Ward

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