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This overwhelming consensus is consistent with the following evidence that the use of cm for human height when using the metric system is preferred in the most reliable of sources in any kind of English:

USA

The United States Government Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website even says, "...height is commonly measured in centimeters..."
NASA: link, link
United States Department of Health and Human Services' website
Scientific American: link
"Missing Person - Kevin Patrick Dawes". fbi.gov. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
"Missing Person Details". wvsp.gov. West Virginia State Police. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
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Pennsylvania Department of Health (2010). ANTHROPOMETRIC TRAINING MANUAL (PDF). USA: nal.usda.gov.
Operations Manual (PDF). Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study: University of California, San Francisco.
Margaret A. McDowell, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D.; Cheryl D. Fryar, M.S.P.H.;Cynthia L. Ogden, Ph.D.; and Katherine M. Flegal, Ph.D. "Anthropometric Reference Data for Children and Adults: United States, 2003–2006" (PDF). National Health Statistics Report. United States Department of Health and Human Services. Retrieved 27 January 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
"Height, body size, and longevity: is smaller better for the human body?". Western Journal of Medicine (176). May 2002. PMC 1071721. PMID PMC1071721. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmid= value (help); Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)
"Clinical Growth Charts". cdc.gov. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
med.wisc.edu. "Procedure: Anthropometry" (PDF). SURVEY METHODS. University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
Judith G. Hall, Judith E. Allanson, Karen W. Gripp, Anne M. Slavotinek (2007). Handbook of Physical Measurements. USA: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-974829-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Simon A. Cole (2001). Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification. USA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674029682.
Komlos, John (1994). Stature, Living Standards, and Economic Development: Essays in Anthropometric History. USA: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226450926. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
Richard H. Steckel, Roderick Floud (2008). Health and Welfare during Industrialization. USA: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226771595.
Michael P. Muehlenbein (2010). Human Evolutionary Biology. USA: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521879484.
A. Roberto Frisancho (1990). Anthropometric Standards for the Assessment of Growth and Nutritional Status. USA: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0472101463.
Thomas Edward Jordan (1993). The Degeneracy Crisis and Victorian Youth. USA: State University of New York Press. ISBN 9780791412466.
Arthur Lennig (2000). Stroheim. USA: The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0813137500.
Thomas T. Samaras (2007). Human Body Size and the Laws of Scaling: Physiological, Performance, Growth, Longevity and Ecological Ramifications. USA: Nova Science Publishers. ISBN 9781600214080.
Tony P. Starks (2006). Trends in Nutrition Research. USA: Nova Science Publishers. ISBN 9781594544910.
Lawrence F. Ditmier (2006). New Developments in Obesity Research. USA: Nova Publishers. ISBN 9781600212963.
Leslie Aiello, Christopher Dean (1990). An Introduction to Human Evolutionary Anatomy. USA: Academic Press. ISBN 9780120455904.
Adams, Bradley J. (2007). Forensic Anthropology. USA: Infobase Publishing. ISBN 9781438103792. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
James Jadrich, Crystal Bruxvoort (2011). Learning & Teaching Scientific Inquiry: Research and Applications. USA: National Science Teachers Association Press. ISBN 9781936959952. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
Bruce J Chalmer (1987). Understanding Statistics. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 9780824773229.
Helander, Martin (2006). A Guide to Human Factors and Ergonomics. USA: CRC Press.
Paul T. McCabe (2002). Contemporary Ergonomics. USA: CRC Press.
Norman Fenton, Martin Neil (2013). Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis with Bayesian Networks. USA: CRC Press. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
Jerrold T. Bushberg, J. Anthony Seibert, Edwin M. Leidholdt, John M. Boone (2012). The Essential Physics of Medical Imaging. USA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
William D. McArdle, Frank I. Katch, Victor L. Katch (2010). Exercise Physiology: Nutrition, Energy, and Human Performance. USA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Carter, Pamela J. (2008). Lippincott's Textbook for Nursing Assistants: A Humanistic Approach to Caregiving. USA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. p. 306. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
Kault, David (2003). Statistics with Common Sense. USA: Greenwood.
Carey, Gregory (2003). Human Genetics for the Social Sciences. USA: Sage Publications.
Susan Cohen, Christine Cosgrove (2009). Normal at any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest to manipulate Height. USA: Penguin Books. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
G. J. Sawyer & Viktor Deak (2007). The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-two Species of Extinct Humans. USA: Nevraumont Publishing Company.
Murdock, James A. (1999). Perturbations: Theory and Methods. USA: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. ISBN 9780898714432. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
Robert Lapham and Heather Agar (2009). Drug Calculations for Nurses. USA: Taylor & Francis. p. 223. ISBN 9780340987339. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
Alan M. Polansky (2008). Observed Confidence Levels: Theory and Application. USA: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781584888031.
Robert M. Malina, Claude Bouchard, Oded Bar-Or (2004). Growth, Maturation, and Physical Activity. USA: Human Kinetics. ISBN 9780880118828.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Vaughan Kippers, Stephanie Hanrahan, Marcus Pandy (2013). Biophysical Foundations of Human Movement. USA: Human Kinetics. ISBN 9781450431651.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Gillian Bentley, Ruth Mace (2009). Substitute Parents: Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies. USA: Berghahn Books. ISBN 9780857456427.
Brenda Haugen (2005). Martha Washington: First Lady of the United States. USA: Compass Point Books. ISBN 9780756509835.
Michael J. Lazzara (2011). Luz Arce and Pinochet's Chile: Testimony in the Aftermath of State Violence. USA: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230118423.
Anthony H. Cordesman (2003). Saudi Arabia Enters the Twenty-first Century: The political, foreign policy, economic, and energy dimensions. USA: Greenwood. ISBN 9780275979980.
Jaan Valsiner (1986). The Individual Subject and Scientific Psychology. USA: Plenum Press.
Maurice Fishberg (2006). Jews, Race and Environment. USA: Transaction Publishers.
Physicians for Human Rights (1994). Waiting for Justice in Chiapas. USA: Human Rights Watch.
Susan R. Gregson (2005). Sam Houston: Texas Hero. USA: Compass Point Books.
Dawn M. Hudson (2006). Human Anatomy & Physiology. USA: Walch Publishing.

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"Pygmy". britannica.com. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
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"P2709: Interviewer Measurements" (PDF). food.gov.uk. Food Standards Agency.
"Talent 2016: Tall and Talented". uksport.gov.uk. UK Sport. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
"Safety in your car". richmond.gov.uk. London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
"Adult anthropometric measures, overweight and obesity" (PDF). hscic.gov.uk. The Health and Social Care Information Centre. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
"The Scottish Health Survey 2008". scotland.gov.uk. The Scottish Government.
Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition & The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. "Application of WHO Growth Standards in the UK" (PDF). sacn.gov.uk. TSO. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
Dave Ruston, Jacqueline Hoare Lynne Henderson, Jan Gregory (2004). The National Diet & Nutrition Survey: adults aged 19 to 64 years (PDF). UK: Office for National Statistics.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
"Case 11-007783". missingpersons.police.uk. UK Missing Persons Bureau. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
"Air cabin crew". nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
Michael Nelson, Bob Erens, Beverly Bates, Susan Church and Tracy Boshier (2007). Low income diet and nutrition survey (PDF). UK: TSO. Retrieved 8 July 2014.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. UK: Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008.
Oxford Textbook of Medicine. UK: Oxford University Press. 2003.
van Deemter, Kees (2010). Not Exactly: In Praise of Vagueness. UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-164785-7. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
Allen, Robert C. (2013). The High Wage Economy and The Industrial Revolution: A Rrestatement (PDF). UK: University of Oxford. Retrieved 8 July 2014.*Stanley J. Ulijaszek, Francis E. Johnston, Michael A. Preece (1998). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Growth and Development. UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521560467.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Phyllis B. Eveleth, James M. Tanner (1990). Worldwide Variation in Human Growth. UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521359160.
Roderick Floud, Annabel Gregory, Kenneth Wachter (1990). Height, Health and History: Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980. UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521303149.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Bogin, Barry (1999). Patterns of Human Growth. UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521564380.
Roderick Floud, Robert W. Fogel, Bernard Harris & Sok Chul Hong (2011). The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700. UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139500807.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Percy Amaury Talbot, H. Mulhall (1962). The Physical Anthropology of Southern Nigeria: A Biometric Study in Statistical Method. UK: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
Deepti Gupta, Norsaadah Zakaria (2014). Anthropometry, Apparel sizing and design. UK: Woodhead Publishing in association with The Textile Institute. ISBN 9780857096890. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
Designing Apparel for Consumers: The Impact of Body Shape and Size. UK: Woodhead Publishing and The Textile Institute. 2014. ISBN 9781782422150. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
Preedy, Victor R. (2012). Handbook of Anthropometry: Physical Measures of Human Form in Health and Disease. UK: Springer Science+Business Media. ISBN 9781441917881. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
Bowers, David (2008). Medical Statistics from Scratch: An Introduction for Health Professionals (2nd ed.). UK: John Wiley & Sons. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
Smith, Malcolm (2003). Human Biology and History. UK: Taylor & Francis.
Bird, John (2010). Engineering Mathematics (6th ed.). UK: Elsevier. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
Thomas F. Cash (2012). Encyclopedia of Body Image and Human Appearance. UK: Elsevier.
Michèle Belot (2010). Anthropometry of love: Height and gender asymmetries in interethnic marriages. UK: Elsevier.
Tooley, Mike (2010). Design Engineering Manual. UK: Butterworth-Heinemann. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
Hinton, Perry R. (2014). Statistics Explained (Third ed.). UK: Routledge. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
Virginia Berridge, Stuart Blume (2013). Poor Health: Social Inequality Before and After the Black Report. UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781135292188.
Bernard Harris, Lina Gálvez, Helena Machado (2009). Gender and Well-Being in Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. UK: Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 9781409491750.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Keir Giles (2006). Where have all the soldiers gone?: Russia's military plans versus demographic reality. UK: Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. ISBN 9781905058921.
Ute Frevert (2004). A Nation in Barracks: Modern Germany, Military Conscription and Civil Society. UK: Berg. ISBN 9781859738863.

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Roger Bartlett, Chris Gratton, Christer G. Rolf (2012). Encyclopedia of International Sports Studies. UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781135223878.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Judy A. Driskell & Ira Wolinsky (2002). Nutritional Assessment of Athletes. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 9781420041323.
Jill Bryant (2012). Women Athletes Who Changed the World. USA: The Rosen Publishing Group.
Rebecca Tanner, Christopher Gore (2012). Physiological Tests for Elite Athletes. USA: Australian Institute of Sport.
Parvaneh Nazar Ali, Parichehr Hanachi, Najmeh Rezaei Nejad. "The Relation of Body Fats, Anthropometric Factor and Physiological Functions of Iranian Female National Judo Team". Modern Applied Science. Canadian Center of Science and Education. Retrieved 1 February 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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Margaret Estivalet, Pierre Brisson (2009). The Engineering of Sport 7. France: Springer.
Wolfram Manzenreiter (2013). Sport and Body Politics in Japan. UK: Routledge.
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Susan Lanham-New, Samantha Stear, Susan Shirreffs, Adam Collins (2011). Sport and Exercise Nutrition. UK: John Wiley & Sons.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Gary Alan Sailes (1998). African Americans in Sports. USA: Transaction Publishers.
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Manuel J. Coelho e Silva, António J. Figueiredo, Marije T. Elferink-Gemser, Robert M. Malina (2009). Youth Sports: Participation, Trainability and Readiness. Portugal: University of Coimbra Press.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Craig Williams, David James, Cassie Wilson (2008). Mathematics and Science for Sport and Exercise. UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781134108121.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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