What is your Cephalic Index?

[AWAR]

Razmig said:

what tools can i use to get these measurements? i certainly cant use a ruler lol

If you have a two dimensional head, you can ;D
(joke)

Here, look at these instruments and links:
www.skadi.net/forum/showthread.php?t=5532

[herrx]

Razmig said:

what tools can i use to get these measurements? i certainly cant use a ruler lol

use some ingenuity!
Take a good number of photos(frontal and profile), ten is a good number from each one. Try to get every from the same angle and distance. Calculate the average and the deviation(to be sure you are doing it well).
Compare the total cranial height(from the chin to the top of the head) in both frontal and profile together, to see if the deviation is not too big. If the height is too different between the profile and frontal, there is no problem, you should resize one of them with it's exact ratio.
Now, using paintbrush you can calculate using lines and pixels as the measurement unit.

[felix]

my index is 68.6, hiperdolichocefalic. I repeated the measurements twice with the same results.

My personal point of view is that dolicocephaly is better because:

1 - is more "primordial" than brachicephaly. The original skulls of europeans where all dolicho, from Cro-Magnon to indoeuropeans.

2 - is more beautiful.

About subraces, in Europe Nordics and Mediterraneans are dolicho, all the others subraces are brachi (alpine, dinaric and baltic).
Outside Europe, Iranians are dolicho, Indians and "Lybics" too, and jews, armenians, georgians, west turks and tajiks are brachi.
Outside the "white" race, almost all the negroid race is dolicho, and the mongolic race is mostly brachi.

[Melnorme]

felix said:

Outside Europe, Iranians are dolicho, Indians and "Lybics" too, and jews, armenians, georgians, west turks and tajiks are brachi.

It's inaccurate to say that 'Jews are brachi'.

This URL is from a Marxist website ( ick ), but it has an invaluable cephalic index table, and other data as well.

www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1914/jewsrace/ch05.htm

[Dienekes]

felix said:

my index is 68.6, hiperdolichocefalic.
...

My personal point of view is that dolicocephaly is better

Gee, why am I not surprised?

[Dienekes]

By the way, cranial capacity is positively correlated with the cranial index (+0.37) and negatively correlated with the nasal index (-0.46).

Brain Size, Cranial Morphology, Climate, and Time Machines
Kenneth L. Beals; Courtland L. Smith; Stephen M. Dodd
Current Anthropology, Vol. 25, No. 3. (Jun., 1984), pp. 301-330.

[sublime]

A. Head form

Lengths:

x-169mm : very short
170-177mm : short
178-185mm : moderately long
186-193mm : long
194-x mm : very long

Breadths:

x-139mm : very narrow
140-147mm : narrow
148-155mm : moderately broad
156-163mm : broad
164-x mm : very broad


Source:

Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, Die Forschung am Menschen.Teil1: Geschichte und Methoden der Anthropologie.
Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke, 1940.

[sublime]

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According to my latest measurement my cephalic index is 78.02, mesocephalic. The technique I used to work out my cephalic index was to take two pictures with my webcam, one face on and one from the side, ensuring that my head was an equal height in both pictures. I then used Adobe Photoshop to measure the breadth and length of my head in pixels & worked out my cephalic index from the measurements taken.

Previously I have measured my head using a set of improvised calipers and my cephalic index was 80, which is on the margin between mesocephalic and brachycephalic. The measurements indicated that the length of my head was 200 mm and the breadth was 160mm.

In either case I would say there is a good chance that, within the margin of error, I am indeed mesocephalic verging on brachycephalic.

[sublime]

I got a friend to measure my head using a new method. I placed my face on a piece of paper and they used a ruler to mark the extent of the breadth of my head & I measured this using the ruler and noted it down and in a similar fashion I measured the length. The results I obtained were as follows: head length 180mm, head breadth 145mm, cephalic index 80.7 brachycephalic.

[Dienekes]

Proportions are distorted when taking a picture, especially at very close range. You can experiment by taking a picture of your face from say 50cm to 5m facing forward to see that this is indeed the case.