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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3768443

Researchers estimate that each additional centimeter of height is associated with a 1.30% increase in annual income.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2020/04/16/your-height-has-a-big-impact-on-your-salary-new-research-seeks-to-understand-why/

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[–] context@hexbear.net 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

i wonder about confounding variables like childhood nutrition. in a study like this height may actually be a proxy for socioeconomic status.

edit: and if i'd bothered to read the article i'd have noticed it said exactly that:

Instead, the authors favor an “early environment” explanation, such that people who grow up in healthy, constructive environments become taller, smarter, and more successful than those who grow up in impoverished, destructive environments.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Someone here posted a study of contemporary stats of colonized countries in Asia (particularly India, I believe). It found that the stagnation and even decrease in height correlated with colonization and imperialism since much of the nutritional resources were being redirected elsewhere. The stereotype of Asians being short is largely the cause of crackers in many Asian countries

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

One million percent my first thought

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most rational economic system thats totally a meritocracy bro trust us

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

"Meritocracy" is when you get free stuff on the merit of being a 6'+ gigachad lording over 'manlets'!

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Median income in US: $74580

Median height in US: 175cm (5'9")

Jeff Bezos's income in 2023: $70 billion

Jeff Bezos's estimated height: 530cm (17'4")

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean... he is a Dragon on his lair full of gold, so that height makes sense.

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

At a 100,000,000% salary increase, I make Bezos to be about thirty million inches taller.

This would suggest his space flight didn't even reach his own knees.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I assumed it was exponential.

74580 * 1.013^355

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[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yet here I am: 6'7" and can't find a job angry-hex

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

Nobody can afford to pay you your $120k salary.

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

have you tried just taking over a small country.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

Time to wear absurdly long stilts so I'll be a billionaire

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

actually it's just guys named Kyle

[–] RION@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think of it as a little bonus earned by crying myself to sleep from growing pains

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Don't forget that constant little twinge in the back when you're older from a lifetime of slight bending because tabletops, sinks, and other everyday designs are all just a few inches out of reach.

[–] atturaya@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 1 year ago

people take taller people more seriously, associate them with leadership when maybe it's not warranted. it's not an accident that the vast majority of CEOs and practically every president is >6' and so many lie about their height or wear lifts or whatever.

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I may be 6'1 but I am unemployed and unemployable

[–] RonPaulyShore@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Mentally short sicko-tear

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

we need a tall guy tax and short guy reparations but nobody gives a shit because they either have bigger legitimate problems (racism, misogyny, etc) or they want to be andrew tate.

[–] the_itsb@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

this is super funny to me, a short person who can't reach the top shelves of her cabinets

In defense of tall dudes like my husband, they're already paying a Personal Comfort tax: they're constantly bonking their heads into things, and their legs don't fit anywhere.

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

he can wipe his tears with the extra 3.3%

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Living like a king with my extra 3.3% of fuck all.

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tall people also need to eat more just because they're tall. That effects monthly food expenses.

Tall people food grants/welfare when lol?

[–] the_itsb@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

PLEASE jfc 😭 that man can EAT 😂

between him our teen son, there is no keeping food in this house

[–] RonPaulyShore@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Me, holding up my tallbux just above the shorties who are reaching and straining on their tiptoes.

[–] Comradesexual@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 year ago

I am 5'6'' (168cm). Now I know why I cannot find a job.

[–] cryptymythy@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

when the ridiculous aliens in Invader Zim have a more consistent society

[–] Juice@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Importantly, this estimation assumes other factors associated with earning potential — for instance, gender, age, years of schooling, and location — are held equal.

See, the gender/pay gap is a myth! It's a height/pay gap!

Academia is a fucking joke

[–] RonPaulyShore@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Huh? This is saying that a height-pay-gap exists in the absence of other variables (like a possible gender gap), not that there is no gender gap.

[–] Juice@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does it mean that the other factors are held equal? If difference is negated doesn't that skew the results? I guess I don't understand the study

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You want to study the effect of a certain trait on a group. So you take two groups and try to make them as even as possible, aside from the trait you are testing. Ideally you'd match every guy in your sample with someone who is mostly identical in upbringing, location, etc, but taller. That's how you make sure it's actually height causing the effect and not something else. If you don't account for this, you might end up with a bunch of bourgeois short kings getting compared to 6 foot tall poor people, and might even come the conclusion that height has a negative correlation with wealth.

It's not saying "height matters, not those other things." But rather "height is one of those things that effect socioeconomic status, statistically."

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[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Babs@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Jokes and incel catastrophizing aside, lookism is indeed a thing with material consequences in society. People just like conventionally-attractive people more and that leads to preferential treatment.

[–] Cowboy@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Maybe the gender pay gap was actually the height pay gap all along

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Barron Trump gonna be ballin'

[–] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Damn Brace really is rich

[–] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Lol another reason why the most I've ever made is like 10k a year.

Making $189,000 a year is my 9'11"

[–] Anne_Teefa@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

5' 10(.5)" and don't make ish...

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

The most oppressed group society is manlets.

In case you really couldn't tell.../s

[–] Cherufe@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

This explains John Fetterman

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Those guys are both just Lieutenant Commander Andy Billups. Since he lives in a post-scarcity communist society, he has no need of a salary, whatever his height.

[–] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Forbes is incel propaganda

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