Weird question... dwarfs

[hjo3]

Dunno if anyone knows, but I'm curious: Are dwarfs less common today than they were in the past? Like, say, fifty years ago.

I think they might be, given improvements in medicine and so on, but I really have no idea.

Does the census even cover "dwarf" status? I know ethnicities and religions are tracked somewhat...

 

[xSkyDrAx]

Looking for midget pr0n?

 

[imported_Ed]

Originally posted by: xSkyDrAx
Looking for midget pr0n?

 

[quakefiend420]

how short do you have to be to qualify as a dwarf?

 

[klah]

http://www.lpaonline.org/

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: quakefiend420
how short do you have to be to qualify as a dwarf?

Only height matters, I think something like 3'11". But I have no idea, really.

 

[wfbberzerker]

improvements in medicine?

little-peopleism is genetic.

 

[hjo3]

Originally posted by: wfbberzerker
improvements in medicine?

little-peopleism is genetic.

Oh, didn't know. But hey, gene therapy could cure it someday if applied during childhood.

 

[Ikonomi]

Originally posted by: klah
http://www.lpaonline.org/

Q: Can short-statured couples become the parents of average-size children?

A: Yes. The odds vary with diagnosis, but a person with achondroplasia has one dwarfism gene and one "average-size" gene. If both parents have achondroplasia, there is a 25 percent chance their child will inherit the non-dwarfism gene from each parent and thus be average-size. There's a 50 percent chance the child will inherit one dwarfism gene and one non-dwarfism gene and thus have achondroplasia, just like her or his parents. And there is a 25 percent chance the child will inherit both dwarfism genes, a condition known a double-dominant syndrome, and which invariably ends in death at birth or shortly thereafter.

Man, I didn't know that. 25% chance of death at or shortly after birth for children of two dwarf parents. :Q

 

[rezinn]

lol @ advances in medicine

If they are less common it is probably because they don't propogate as often as other people.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: Mehul Patel
Dwarves are a friendly but powerful race of individuals. Efficient at everything they do, the dwarf race is excellent at using their lands. Unfortunately, their efficiency is matched by a love of food.

 

[dc]

dwarfs make good priests.
but i'm on a pvp server so i like shadowmeld also.

 

[Biggerhammer]

Originally posted by: quakefiend420
how short do you have to be to qualify as a dwarf?

4' 8" I think it was.

 

[leftyman]

they used em all up bowling

 

[LookingGlass]

Originally posted by: klah
http://www.lpaonline.org/

Interesting link, really. Never knew there were so many forms of dwarfism.

 

[Mucho]

Both parents of Jim Plunkett former Raiders quarterback are dwarfs