1. height is important for career success
Its not a requirement, but many of us have found shorter men to be taken less seriously/have to work harder
Agree;but there are many short successful people, at least in asia where there is less of a height culture (I heard)
2. height is important for girls (and I don't know why girls would come into the equation unless you are very much below average, but okay?)
In most cases, it is. While most women don't require their dates to be over 6ft, most want men at least a few inches taller than them, and when you are close to the average female height you''ll find your options getting limited.
6 feet is not required but it appears that many women want guys at six feet or above, or at least 1.80, in Asian countries. The bare minimum appears to be 170 cm in Singapore. (2 cm plus below national average).
\3. The average height is >2-5 cm taller than the official statistics
This is probably just an illusion created by those knuckleheads who exaggerate their heights
I think it is distorted worldview. Just take 100 people and eyeball them. Chances are, the average is the average.
4. That the younger generation is taller when it is negligibly so based on the data we now have
You're right, younger generations are only taller if the previous ones were severely malnourished and had stunted growth. Evolution takes longer than 30 years/a generation to happen!
Yes, statistics (we had a thread on this with a few PDF files) have shown that the various age groups have the SAME HEIGHT. sometimes the older age group even has a higher height. in America, average height stagnated at 176 cm and 178 cm for all americans and white americans respectively. a young American (white) is 178cm tall. An older American is, also 178 cm tall, plus or minus less than 0.5 cm. The same goes for Danish youngsters (179 cm, is the height for youngsters and middle aged and even 40+) and Norway.
In western countries that have been developed for a long time, the height of youngsters IS THE SAME as the general population (maybe, excluding the 60s guys)
In countries that are newly industrialised ie, developed a lot in recent years, perhaps Singapore,, Korea, etc, the average heigt did increase, but it increased only a few centimetres over 10-20 years.
5. Height is causing their depression/whatever mental issue, or failure in life, when they are already of above average height
Some of them do have issues way deeper than their height...but think about a guy that's 5'10 and shorter than all his family and co-workers...is it wrong for him to feel not tall in enough? In his little world, he IS short. Height is all relative.
I agree. my brother is 180cm and it feels so weird. I feel short even though I was above average. I always feel short in my university. my perception of average is 175 -176 cm but the national figure is 172 cm.But I don't buy the "youngsters are taller" story.
6. 6' is not tall. 5'11 is not tall, etc. And they wanna lengthen to 190 cm.
When members who DON'T live in Northern Europe/Netherlands say this, its sometimes because they have gotten into the "more height is always better" mode. They don't wanna stop at average, they actually want to be tall.
more height is not actually better. I think past 6 feet , in most countries, the returns are negligible (or even negative returns)
7. 190 cm is not tall enough 'for business'. (what?)
I'm not even going to comment on this one...
this was posted in the forum, he wanted to be 195 cm
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