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I believe there is an age when confidence is created. Teenage years. You carry that status the rest of your life. Even if you are successful later in life, you
by huherto 10y ago
I believe there is an age when confidence is created. Teenage years. You carry that status the rest of your life. Even if you are successful later in life, you still feel a bit like an impostor. (see impostor syndrome) And it shows in your personality.
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/everyday_economics/2002/03/short_changed.html http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/everyday_economics/2002/0...
"Height at age 7 or 11 turns out to have no impact at all on future wages. But height at age 16 makes all the difference in the world."
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- Bartweiss 10y agoThis is really interesting in light of the studies suggesting that tall people are more successful. Those results almost always claim that it's an externally mediated result (i.e. that we respect tall people more because they're tall). This would suggest that it might be an internally mediated result (i.e. that tall people are more confident). That would make a lot of sense to me, since we tend to be more acutely aware of our own height than other's heigh.
- amelius 10y agoI can see a business opportunity here: If you are a rich parent and your kid is too small, just buy him classmates that are even smaller :)
- Bartweiss 10y agoNapoleon syndrome as a service?
- maxerickson 10y agoThousands of children get HGH injections to increase their height.
- klipt 10y agoOr just inject your kid with growth hormone - it's one of the primary determiners of human height. Of course, physicians will only prescribe it if it's deemed medically necessary, i.e. your kid is way at the bottom of the height percentiles. "Not tall enough to be a CEO" isn't considered a medical condition.
- jdmichal 10y agoIt could also be a feedback loop. Tall people are more successful because they are more respected/confident because they are more successful... So if the ongoing function is self-sustaining, that would make the question, what's the original impetus?
- Mendenhall 10y agoWar
- chias 10y ago> But height at age 16 makes all the difference in the world. I was done growing at age 16. So if you accept that current height can affect wages, then this statement seems trivial (at least to me, with my growth pattern...)
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