Normal Body Temperature Think 98.6° is normal body temperature? Think again, that number is from a study over a hundred years ago, with 19th century thermometers. Normal body temperature is different for everyone, at different times of day, at different conditions. This dataset is from a study in 1992 from the Journal of the American Medical Association that shows a little more detail on body temp averages.
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I always loved this story how 98.6 is so ingrained in our culture as "normal" body temperature - but in fact it is nothing but normal. This dataset, however, is a bit limited with samples from only 65 men and 65 woman. Please let me know if anyone has more in-depth data, with hopefully 1000s of samples and more detail (i.e. age, time of day, race, country, whatever).
Posted Apr 27, 2009, 3:02 PM (EST) by Frank at DeepOgon
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I always loved this story how 98.6 is so ingrained in our culture as "normal" body temperature - but in fact it is nothing but normal. This dataset, however, is a bit limited with samples from only 65 men and 65 woman. Please let me know if anyone has more in-depth data, with hopefully 1000s of samples and more detail (i.e. age, time of day, race, country, whatever).