Gymcelled
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The height of choosiness: mutual mate choice for stature results in suboptimal pair formation for both sexes
Mutual mate choice is prevalent in humans, where both males and females have a say in their choice of partner. How the choices made by one sex constra…
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"just be 10 inches taller than her bro"
Imagine a 5ft6 manlet hitting on a 5ft4 girl thinking he's ok since he's 2in taller than her. Meanwhile she's aiming for 6ft2.
Unsurprisingly men were much less strict, they preferred women who were only 7cm shorter
It's worth noting that the sample size was nearly 60 000 people, so clearly these results weren't cherry picked by evil inkwels
Interestingly the point were men and women reached a comprise seemed to be at 19cm (8inches), that's where matching was the most likely.
"B-but it's just speed dating!! Doesn't mean anything "
Here's another study then. It wasn't done on speed dating and it found that women's preferred height difference was 21cm taller, whereas men's was 8cm shorter. Both results are pretty damn close to the speed dating study
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886913000020
women are most satisfied when their partner was 21 cm taller, whereas men are most satisfied when they were 8 cm taller than their partner