Thorough study on the implicit biases and discrimination against short individuals.

You can find the study in its complete form here.

This image was posted on the sub-reddit "Data Is Beautiful". The man swiped 14,000 times on dating apps over four years and only received 14 matches. Drum Roll please!..... The man was also 5'3. 

"I wonder if that had something to do with it"?

You can find that Reddit post here.

Source - Washington Post

The article focuses on native born Americans also, so the usual "because of immigration" may not apply here. 

The chart in the article by The Economist allows you to select how each gender filters by race, age and height. I have to say after reading the artice and engaging with the chart that none of the data is surprising and regurgitates what most of us already know, especially as it pertains to height.

One thing that stood out as I shared this with friends is how rigid the shortest of men are when it comes to their height filters. Some of my female collegues tried to use this as a "gotchya", with, "see, shorter men don't want to date taller women and there are lots who would date them". I say "WRONG". Shorter men already know they are not sought after by taller women, so they set their filters accordingly. What say you?

The article can be found here. 

From a 2015 research paper.

Every man know all of this already which is why I laugh when someone says, "just date _____". It literally doesn't matter.

Now while I don't struggle with dating and there are lots of shorter men who do not, we cannot behave that there isn't a hierarchy and that people of all backgrounds aren't influenced by it. 

https://priceonomics.com/where-are-the-tallest-people-in-the-world/

Came across this article which pretty much sums up what those who are aware already know. While height in the Eurpoean low countries has been increasing over the last 50-100 years, height here in the U.S.A. has stagnated. No matter what crappy anecdotes your younger colleagues are telling you ("All of the guys in my freshmen classes are 6' on average), Americans now are the same height or in some cases shorter than 50 years ago and no, "immigration is not brining it down".

Interesting facts:

• The U.S. ranks 40th for height and height has been in steady decline since the 50s. (Graph http://imgur.com/a/PCyMn)
• Height worldwide stagnated since the 70s. (Graph http://imgur.com/a/DYMmU)
• Researchers believe that the Dutch have reached the limits of human height
• Immigrants are NOT bringing American height averages down. White Americans Males have stalled at 5'9.5 (CDC)
• Canadians are taller than Americans
• Americans were almost the tallest country in the world in 1900 (117 years ago FYI)

From PsychiatryOnline.org

ABSTRACT

Objective: Previous studies have found associations between poor fetal and infant growth and the risk of suicide. The authors’ goal was to investigate the association between height—a measure of childhood growth—and suicide risk. 

Method: The authors conducted a record linkage study of the birth, conscription, mortality, family, and census register data of 1,299,177 Swedish men followed from age 18 to a maximum of age 49. 

Results: There were 3,075 suicides over an average follow-up period of 15 years. There was a strong inverse association between height and suicide risk. In fully adjusted models, a 5-cm increase in height was associated with a 9% decrease in suicide risk. 

Conclusions: The strong inverse association between height and suicide may signify the importance of childhood exposure in the etiology of adult mental disorder or reflect stigmatization or discrimination encountered by short men in their adult lives.

Study can be read at this link

What are your thoughts?

This study was done by the University Of Edinburgh and says they can determine with accuracy the height of their long term partners. It also says this desire is genetic. Interesting that according to this research, both women and men prefer partners of similar height. This goes the anecdotal evidence presented by short men and women in forums and social discussion.