Chapter 3 The Floating Skeleton (I)(13)
“OK, what can be the index?” I asked.
“I have considered with the two nipples and the navel, which these three points can create a triangle. This triangle has three sides and one height, we can use the lengths of the four lines of the thirteen girls to divide the heights of the girls, which can get four coefficients. The four coefficients multiply the corresponding four lengths of the lines and calculate an average number, which finally can get the height of the victim. As to the weight, we can measure the fat thickness of the chest clavicle, sternum, upper abdomen and hypogastrium to calculate with the same method.”
This was an adventurous thinking. If there are some obvious mistakes on establishing the source conditions of the corpse, the whole detection work cannot proceed. This adventurous method, which utilized the “statistical significance” I just metioned was backed by science. But the examine material amount was only thirteen, the amount was too less, so there was wide deviation probably.