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Height as well. We instinctively think tall people make better leaders.

• WalterBright 4y ago
  Tall people tend to be more relaxed in leadership roles, because they feel less of a need to prove themselves.
  • jackblemming 4y ago
    White people tend to be more relaxed in leadership roles, because they feel less of a need to prove themselves. Do you see how insane this sounds?
    • WalterBright 4y ago
      You might be interested in the biography of General Benjamin Davis, a great American hero.
    • t-3 4y ago
      The social dominance affected by greater height is not an illusion - this has been observed and studied widely. Being part of a majority group (which whites are in the US) is also noted for similar effects. Just because we don't like these things doesn't mean we should deny their existence - that's how you get systemic discrimination in the first place.
    • hedora 4y ago
      Also, men, because they're physically larger, on average. The important thing is that this all gets sussed out via whiteboard coding questions, where the candidate is put in a usually windowless box with some alpha coder, and told to solve math puzzles under time pressure, and are then judged based on "culture fit". That reminds me. Does anyone know how to buy bike desks like the ones in The Zero Theorem? I'd like to add them to our bull pen and interview setup, now that we're back in the office: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7my1G0TrwT8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7my1G0TrwT8 (I've found that examples of what not to do are often the most useful.)
  • Jensson 4y ago
    Maybe they actually have more need to prove themselves since short peoples leadership gets challenged much more often? Why else would they feel greater need to prove themselves? It isn't like short peoples brains are wired differently.
    • WalterBright 4y ago
      Tall and/or attractive people have lifelong advantages. There's nothing fair or just about it. We're each dealt a different set of cards, and it's up to us to take advantage of the good cards and make lemonade from the bad ones as best we can. I.e. don't confuse having an advantage or disadvantage with destiny. We make our own destinies by the choices we make.
      • qayxc 4y ago
        > I.e. don't confuse having an advantage or disadvantage with destiny. We make our own destinies by the choices we make. That's cute but very disconnected from reality.
        • WalterBright 4y ago
          > That's cute but very disconnected from reality. Reality is full of examples of people who have overcome disadvantages. Edison suffered severe hearing loss as a child, for example.
          • qayxc 4y ago
            Good example, now imagine the same Edison (w.r.t. potential) at the same time with the same hearing loss born to a black family. Imagine the great things a genius like Srinivasa Ramanujan could have achieved if he had the privilege of a proper formal education and wouldn't have lived at the poverty line for most his life, which ultimately caused him to die young. For every Edison there's literally millions of (mostly) poor people, who for one reason or another (be that born with the wrong genitalia, wrong skin colour, or at the wrong place) simply never even get the chance to develop their full potential no matter how hard they try. Denying the impact of pure happenstance on people's destiny is denying a large part of reality. Unfortunately not everyone is lucky enough to be born into a supporting family or a country that offers actual opportunities in life. edit: basically what I'm trying to say is that it's incredibly hard to roll a 7 when using a single D6 versus someone rolling two D20s :)
  • qiskit 4y ago
    Nope. I remember there was a study where non-descriptive figures on paper were shown to little children and they all attributed positive traits to the taller figure and negative traits to the smaller figure. It's not about behavior, there seems to be an innate bias amongst humans towards taller people.
    • autoexec 4y ago
      > there seems to be an innate bias amongst humans towards taller people. Either that or our tall people worshiping culture had time enough to shape those children's world view. I also wonder though if children aren't a bit biased because their own parents, the people who feed and love and protect them, happen to be giants from their point of view.
• hoosieree 4y ago
  In the cartoon show Invader Zim, the alien civilization uses height (and only height) to select its leaders. The older I get, the more I wonder if this was satirical.
  • jglmn 4y ago
    great show