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When a 34-year-old biologist is asked what she is looking for in a man, she doesn’t respond with a height requirement The research on the topic is quite clear

When a 34-year-old biologist is asked what she is looking for in a man, she doesn’t respond with a height requirement The research on the topic is quite clear that across all ages, across all cultures, and across all races, heterosexual womens' unspoken but critically important criteria in mate selection is height.

stoffie 11y ago
do you even have proof?
- deleted 11y ago
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- beachstartup 11y ago
  https://www.reddit.com/r/short/search?q=women&restrict_sr=on https://www.reddit.com/r/short/search?q=women&restrict_sr=on i'm not short (i'm exactly average) but this pops up a lot on the subreddits i frequent.
- vox_mollis 11y ago
  Here are a few: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/223514620_Factors_influencing_preferences_for_height_A_replication_and_extension http://www.researchgate.net/publication/223514620_Factors_in... http://news.rice.edu/2014/02/10/is-height-important-in-matters-of-the-heart-new-study-says-yes/ http://news.rice.edu/2014/02/10/is-height-important-in-matte... http://jfi.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/01/12/0192513X13519256 http://jfi.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/01/12/0192513X1351... http://www.medicaldaily.com/short-women-still-prefer-taller-men-how-height-preferences-havent-changed-search-love-269037 http://www.medicaldaily.com/short-women-still-prefer-taller-...
- badsock 11y ago
  http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-biggest-lies-in-online-dating/ http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-biggest-lies-in-online... Not especially good evidence that women care, but it certainly looks like men do.
  - FilterSweep 11y ago
    That doesn't invalidate his comment. You have to ask yourself _why_ are men exaggerating their height by two inches on average? They wouldn't exaggerate their height if it wasn't an important factor in potential mates. And the data confirms it: "We've found that taller people, up to a point, have more sex". You see on the graph that the "frequency of sex" (unlabeled y-axis) increases for men up to 6'8".
brighteyes 11y ago
You're right, of course, but the article was talking about a specific woman there. It's very possible that women care about men's height, on average, but that particular woman does not.
freyr 11y ago
> heterosexual womens' unspoken but critically important criteria in mate selection is height. Your impression may be biased, in part, because it's easy to measure height and create studies based around it. My friend is handsome and rather short, whereas I'm tall and average looking. Despite what the studies say, women throw themselves at him whenever we go out, and he has a ridiculous match rate on Tinder. While height may be one of many factors influencing attraction, it is in no way an overriding critical factor as your statement suggests.
- enraged_camel 11y ago
  >>While height may be one of many factors influencing attraction, it is in no way an overriding critical factor as your statement suggests. He didn't say overriding critical factor. He said a critical factor. Yes, short but handsome men are also attractive. But nowhere as attractive as they would be if they were taller.
  - freyr 11y ago
    And tall and average-looking men are nowhere near as attractive as they would be if they were tall and handsome. What's your point? Poor and handsome men are nowhere near as attractive as they would be if they were rich. And rich and timid men are nowhere near as attractive as they would be if they were confident. In real life, being handsome generally wins out over being tall, despite many men who fixate on height as a critical factor holding them back. Why is this? Maybe it's easier for someone to imagine himself as taller rather than as more handsome. You could be taller without altering the physical traits that you associate with your identity. Or perhaps most men think of themselves as handsome, whether or not they really are. > "He said a critical factor." >> "heterosexual womens' unspoken but critically important criteria in mate selection is height." I stand by my assertion that his phrasing implies height is the critical criteria. Of course, this doesn't quite make sense grammatically.
    - enraged_camel 11y ago
      Handsomeness is subjective. Height is objective. You're comparing apples and bananas.

stoffie 11y ago

do you even have proof?

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beachstartup 11y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/short/search?q=women&restrict_sr=on https://www.reddit.com/r/short/search?q=women&restrict_sr=on i'm not short (i'm exactly average) but this pops up a lot on the subreddits i frequent.
vox_mollis 11y ago
Here are a few: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/223514620_Factors_influencing_preferences_for_height_A_replication_and_extension http://www.researchgate.net/publication/223514620_Factors_in... http://news.rice.edu/2014/02/10/is-height-important-in-matters-of-the-heart-new-study-says-yes/ http://news.rice.edu/2014/02/10/is-height-important-in-matte... http://jfi.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/01/12/0192513X13519256 http://jfi.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/01/12/0192513X1351... http://www.medicaldaily.com/short-women-still-prefer-taller-men-how-height-preferences-havent-changed-search-love-269037 http://www.medicaldaily.com/short-women-still-prefer-taller-...
badsock 11y ago
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-biggest-lies-in-online-dating/ http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-biggest-lies-in-online... Not especially good evidence that women care, but it certainly looks like men do.
- FilterSweep 11y ago
  That doesn't invalidate his comment. You have to ask yourself _why_ are men exaggerating their height by two inches on average? They wouldn't exaggerate their height if it wasn't an important factor in potential mates. And the data confirms it: "We've found that taller people, up to a point, have more sex". You see on the graph that the "frequency of sex" (unlabeled y-axis) increases for men up to 6'8".

brighteyes 11y ago

You're right, of course, but the article was talking about a specific woman there. It's very possible that women care about men's height, on average, but that particular woman does not.

freyr 11y ago

> heterosexual womens' unspoken but critically important criteria in mate selection is height. Your impression may be biased, in part, because it's easy to measure height and create studies based around it. My friend is handsome and rather short, whereas I'm tall and average looking. Despite what the studies say, women throw themselves at him whenever we go out, and he has a ridiculous match rate on Tinder. While height may be one of many factors influencing attraction, it is in no way an overriding critical factor as your statement suggests.

enraged_camel 11y ago
>>While height may be one of many factors influencing attraction, it is in no way an overriding critical factor as your statement suggests. He didn't say overriding critical factor. He said a critical factor. Yes, short but handsome men are also attractive. But nowhere as attractive as they would be if they were taller.
- freyr 11y ago
  And tall and average-looking men are nowhere near as attractive as they would be if they were tall and handsome. What's your point? Poor and handsome men are nowhere near as attractive as they would be if they were rich. And rich and timid men are nowhere near as attractive as they would be if they were confident. In real life, being handsome generally wins out over being tall, despite many men who fixate on height as a critical factor holding them back. Why is this? Maybe it's easier for someone to imagine himself as taller rather than as more handsome. You could be taller without altering the physical traits that you associate with your identity. Or perhaps most men think of themselves as handsome, whether or not they really are. > "He said a critical factor." >> "heterosexual womens' unspoken but critically important criteria in mate selection is height." I stand by my assertion that his phrasing implies height is the critical criteria. Of course, this doesn't quite make sense grammatically.
  - enraged_camel 11y ago
    Handsomeness is subjective. Height is objective. You're comparing apples and bananas.