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    ^ i think there are advantages and disadvantages for both shorter/average men and taller men

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    Quote Originally Posted by Redmar View Post
    What, I'm more referring to is how the mangement is structured within companies. The most succesful entrepreneurs and ceo's tend to be taller than the average person. I think what Luso pointed out about being tall correlates with more trustworthy tendencies, being protective/mature are relieving and key things within business, since shareholders, employees and the chairman rely on the day to day decisions made by the ceo and/or topmanagement.
    This was certainly an issue in the past. Historical figures and powerful politicians seemed to have been on the taller side. I have read some studies where height has been equated to power and nobility and this predates back to early times. However I think this is becoming less of an issue depending on what part of the world you're in. United States is going through a morally correct crisis right now so it's a great time to be short. :-P
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    It does matter

    Consciously or not we see taller people as more respectable/powerful. In dating the same applies and women won't be nearly as receptive to a 5'5 guy as to a 6'3 one. Like others indicated women want to feel feminine and protected so a tall partner accomplishes that

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    Quote Originally Posted by Celestia View Post
    This was certainly an issue in the past. Historical figures and powerful politicians seemed to have been on the taller side. I have read some studies where height has been equated to power and nobility and this predates back to early times. However I think this is becoming less of an issue depending on what part of the world you're in. United States is going through a morally correct crisis right now so it's a great time to be short. :-P
    Haha, here in the Netherlands the same phenomena is occurring, height is becoming lesser of importance, perhaps because people here are universally tall that the effects of being tall in regards to authority/respect and dating are not so strong in let's say the Anglo countries or somewhere in Asia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Celestia View Post
    United States is going through a morally correct crisis right now so it's a great time to be short. :-P
    True, true, I suppose stature won't be as important as before in electing a president, or CEO for a business-- but honestly, we won't know for a long time if this proves true or not. In terms of the moral correct crisis, I'm not too sure if the height of a person is really a talked about feature of it at all? I mean it quite possibly could be... but I mean it's not only so engrained in biological attraction, but societally most people think of taller individuals as more mature, better people, and more successful besides the physical attraction. I don't expect women to see short guys as attractive just cause it's morally unfair to the short guy. But, oh well, I guess we'll see what the future has in store, I just won't voucher for, or, expect people to change their instincts when it comes to height in these departments.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Redmar View Post
    What I'm more referring to is how the mangement is structured within companies. The most succesful entrepreneurs and ceo's tend to be taller than the average person. I think what Luso pointed out about being tall correlates with more trustworthy tendencies, being protective/mature are relieving and key things within business, since shareholders, employees and the chairman rely on the day to day decisions made by the ceo and/or topmanagement.
    In business and politics it's not necessarily true.
    Napoleon Bonaparte was 1.68 m, for instance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kivan View Post
    In business and politics it's not necessarily true.
    Napoleon Bonaparte was 1.68 m, for instance.
    There is a lot of speculation about his height, most sources claim he was indeed 1.68m which was a very normal height in France for that era. Besides that, the founding fathers of the USA were of a huge stature compared to the average man back then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kivan View Post
    In business and politics it's not necessarily true.
    Napoleon Bonaparte was 1.68 m, for instance.
    1.68 m and his balls weighed 5 kgs.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Kivan View Post
    Napoleon Bonaparte was 1.68 m, for instance.
    Napoleon being of short stature is actually a hoax. Well, at least when we consider the historical period in which he lived. The average height for males in the late eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century in Europe would be around his size.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Luso View Post
    True, true, I suppose stature won't be as important as before in electing a president, or CEO for a business-- but honestly, we won't know for a long time if this proves true or not. In terms of the moral correct crisis, I'm not too sure if the height of a person is really a talked about feature of it at all? I mean it quite possibly could be... but I mean it's not only so engrained in biological attraction, but societally most people think of taller individuals as more mature, better people, and more successful besides the physical attraction. I don't expect women to see short guys as attractive just cause it's morally unfair to the short guy. But, oh well, I guess we'll see what the future has in store, I just won't voucher for, or, expect people to change their instincts when it comes to height in these departments.
    The massive demographic change that is occuring in the US, where the share of White Americans (mainly Northwest Europeans) is rapidly declining and the share of Latino, Asian, MENA and Subsaharan Africans are rapidly rising, and the future mixing of these different groups, will drag down the average height in the US population, because all these growing groups have lower height than the old Northwest European stock.

    And because "shorter" people will become more numerous due to immigration and higher birth rates than "taller" people (that have fewer immigrants and lower birth rates), in a way or an another, these "new" Americans will flow into every fields of US society (companies, public offices, polices, schools, hospitals, non-profit organizations, army) and assume also leadership roles. So it won't change the instinctive/biological perception of height, but we can assume it will be a bit less relevant.
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