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>The Guardian story says: "European countries now scoop the top 10 positions for height, with Dutch men and Latvian women the tallest for their sex. That, says
by rubber_duck 10y ago
>The Guardian story says: "European countries now scoop the top 10 positions for height, with Dutch men and Latvian women the tallest for their sex. That, says Bentham (1), could be down to the introduction of a welfare state in many European countries."
That fails to consider the obvious explanation - you are comparing small EU countries with low ethnic diversity, uniform lifestyle and high standard of living with stringent immigration to a huge ethnically diverse country with a huge immigration flow.
- guard-of-terra 10y ago"small EU countries with low ethnic diversity, uniform lifestyle and high standard of living" Maybe that's just The Solution?
- dpc59 10y agoPoverty is part of America's growth fuel.
- guard-of-terra 10y agoWhat's worth of growth if you stay poor?
- rubber_duck 10y agoThe final solution ?
- tormeh 10y agoThe netherlands have stringent immigration rules? Better call that news hotline! Anyway, uniform ethnicity does lead to extremes. If the entire world moved to Latvia then it follows that Latvian women would obviously be of average height.