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"One is the intrinsic value of height; that is, women simply like tall men, while unable to say why."
"The man must be at least 4-5 inches taller than the girl. The ideal height difference is around 7-9 inches more for the man although the cut off is to be 5 inches taller."
"One in five agreed that a gap between four and six inches is the ideal height difference, while just one in ten said matching heights were most desirable."
"Things aren’t so different in the United States. In 2009, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, a survey of more than 5,000 families by the University of Michigan, found that 92.2 percent of men were taller than their spouses (in 1986, that figure was 92.7 percent). Despite that similarity, the findings from the study of U.K. couples might not be perfectly applicable to you. First, they’re only based on couples with children. Second, because height is related to ethnicity, the researchers only included white couples in their findings. Third, they couldn’t be sure of causality. Setting aside metaphysical questions about love, the researchers found that height is correlated with education, and there’s evidence that people choose partners based on their education level. But there’s a bigger issue here — maybe you’ve already spotted it, John: Men tend to be taller than women anyway. Is it really so surprising that only 7.5 percent of heterosexual couples don’t include a man who is taller than a woman? Yes, it is. The Dutch researchers checked this by seeing what would happen if they assigned couples together at random. If choice were out of their hands, 10.2 percent of heterosexual couples would have a man either the same height or shorter than the woman — the reality is 26 percent lower than that."
"The man must be at least 4-5 inches taller than the girl. The ideal height difference is around 7-9 inches more for the man although the cut off is to be 5 inches taller."
"One in five agreed that a gap between four and six inches is the ideal height difference, while just one in ten said matching heights were most desirable."
"Things aren’t so different in the United States. In 2009, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, a survey of more than 5,000 families by the University of Michigan, found that 92.2 percent of men were taller than their spouses (in 1986, that figure was 92.7 percent). Despite that similarity, the findings from the study of U.K. couples might not be perfectly applicable to you. First, they’re only based on couples with children. Second, because height is related to ethnicity, the researchers only included white couples in their findings. Third, they couldn’t be sure of causality. Setting aside metaphysical questions about love, the researchers found that height is correlated with education, and there’s evidence that people choose partners based on their education level. But there’s a bigger issue here — maybe you’ve already spotted it, John: Men tend to be taller than women anyway. Is it really so surprising that only 7.5 percent of heterosexual couples don’t include a man who is taller than a woman? Yes, it is. The Dutch researchers checked this by seeing what would happen if they assigned couples together at random. If choice were out of their hands, 10.2 percent of heterosexual couples would have a man either the same height or shorter than the woman — the reality is 26 percent lower than that."
