Nicholas Bakalar for The New York Times can't figure out that 69.4 inches is 5' 9.4"
The Times is also absolutely certain that Steve King is a white supremacist.
Among all men, age-adjusted mean height increased to 69.4 inches (about 5
feet 8 inches) in 2005 from 69.2 inches in 1999, and then decreased to
69.1 inches by 2016.