Your height is a simple biological fact that you can do little to change, yet it may be influencing your destiny in ways you didn’t realise. BBC Future combed through the evidence to size up its impact on everything from your sexual allure to your bank account and your lifespan.
Money and power At 6ft 4in (193cm), Abraham Lincoln would tower above Barack Obama – but even he is around 3in (8cm) taller than the average American. Confirming the correlation, a recent study found that taller candidates do indeed tend to receive more votes.
Beyond the race to the White House, taller men and women are considered to be more dominant, healthy, and intelligent, and are more likely to be chosen for more competitive jobs; they also earn more money. It could be that we naturally associate height with “greatness” and “dominance” – two traits that are important for leadership. But height also reflects nutrition as a child – so perhaps it simply acts as a more general indicator of your upbringing, which may in turn influence your education and success later in life.
Sexual attraction Towering, statuesque men do tend to have more allure. Study after study has found that taller men and women are generally considered more attractive. Intriguingly, you can even guess someone’s height from their face, meaning a mugshot on a dating website is not going to hide a more diminutive frame. But although they may be prized as supermodels, tall women do not seem to enjoy the same advantages in the dating game, however – an average height generally seems to be preferred.
Verdict: It’s easier for taller people to have the upper hand.
There are advantages and disadvantages to every height. Being freakishly tall myself (6' 8"), I find that many people of both sexes are intimidated by me, especially cops. On the plus side I can reach the tallest shelves, but I have hit my head a lot more on doorframes than the average manlet.
Jayden Bailey
Only the shortest and strongest make the cut in the special forces. The military values a short man that can get through special forces training because they can go longer without eating and drinking, can sneak into tight spaces and can be crammed into transport carriers.
Jonathan Watson
Never experienced any lack of anything in my life, and in fact, I've lived in wanton excess
Liam James
OMG
that post was SO boring
Alexander Butler
sooo boring
Lincoln Garcia
I have found that lanklets tend to be degenerates, and pretty disreputable in general. They tend to lack direction, and so act out as a consequence.
Hudson Smith
my cock is tall and fat
Nathan Lewis
I have no issues with tall women but womanlets are what make my kokoro go doki doki.
wow! amazing! at first, I thought was the most boring thing I'd ever read in my life, until I stumbled upon , at which point I realized new levels of boredom had been reached.
But that'snothing compared to how god damn BORING your post was!
Dylan Price
Guess what's REALLY BORING?
typing a stutter
Wyatt Cook
there's nothing cool, or cute, or original, or abstract, or clever about typing a stutter.
I guess you really did save my OC yesterday! You can't make any of your own, can you?
Lincoln Brown
Oh wait! I didn't look closely enough at it before replying! That must be you, Johnny. You liked my busy concoction enough to download and 'improve' upon it, huh? Why do I feel somewhat honored? I've been over in the time warp thread this afternoon. You may want to check it out. I hellishly blogposted, fed some trolls and committed the crime of shitposting again. I also posted another version of that image. Just a small change, but you might find it more useful.
