Source study (as far as I can tell): <a href="https://home.uchicago.edu/~hortacsu/onlinedating.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://home.uchicago.edu/~hortacsu/onlinedating.pdf</a><p>Jump to Table 5.5 if you want. You can also look around at the other tables surrounding it. Focusing on male height makes for easy twitter-ness. The rest of the tables are less fun to talk about. Based on my interpretation of "Not Feasible" (I couldn't find a good definition in the paper), there is no amount of money that would make moderately tall woman (> 5'8") as attractive as the median height woman (5'5"). And there's no amount of money that would make a less than top 10 percentile attractive woman as attractive (Table 5.4) as a top 10 percentile woman - which is not the case for men.<p>You can draw your own conclusions about how accurately the data and approach in the paper maps reality. But taken at face value, it's not just short men getting a bad deal.
I'm 6'4" and have been a serial dater for 20 years (thanks Spark Match then POF then Tinder.)<p>Ive played around with personas a bit, while obviously my hight stays the same.<p>Height is not the be all end all. Even at 6'4", if I get a bit chubby, I get zero attention from women and the ones I contact basically need to be treated like relationship wife material to get anything going. If I work out for 6+ months, cashier's are giggling and fumbling my change every time I buy something.<p>If I'm feeling off that week or month and not putting out "interesting fun vibes" I'll get ghosted pretty fast online. If I'm in the mood to put in the work, they're ready to take my home after the first date.<p>I bet that if a 5'6" man is rocking a great personality, he will outdo a tall man with a bland personality. Is it easier to fake a positive attitude when you're tall and feel stronger than most guys around? Sure. I think this is what women associate with height more than just pure height.<p>A 5'8" firefighter could easily steal the gf of a 6'4" chubby software developer, atleast for a few nights.
Isn't the 6-foot man more likely to make $237k than the 5'6" man? I know I've seen that study somewhere. That's double the pain for the vertically challenged (myself included).
So the gattaca surgery is worth it.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31211725" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31211725</a>