Quote from: YellowSpike on March 05, 2015, 03:08:48 PMUnless I'm reading the chart wrong, isn't 6'2" the peak there?
Well of course, with online dating ,women discriminate a lot more based on height. I still managed to do really well with online dating, but that's because I have a lot of other things for me (though I claimed 5'7" to try and get my foot in the door, because once I did, I was usually fine) and was able to write compelling and fun profiles. But I can't imagine how many women out there never even saw my profile because they already filtered me out based on height alone.
For the average short man (who is average in other areas), it's better to meet women in real life because they can't gauge your exact height (the number 5'5" sounds bad on paper, I used to always say 5'7" and mostly got away with it), and your confidence/looks can help you more in real life.
Online dating is notoriously cutthroat and superficial. And height is the number one way women will discriminate online, the way we do with women's weight.
I had a good looking guy tell me that being good looking isn't that good after all cos some girls might be after you for your looks.
Perhaps the same logic might apply to height. But either way, I live only once so I guess I will go for the best height I can. I will always age later, and look worse, etc, that will filter away the superficial ones.
Statistical & Anecdotal Proofs that 6 Feet is Ideal, Taller is not ideal
and yup, sorry careless mistake. When you have 7 sources or more telling you the ideal height is six feet, you get caught up. Yup, it is 6'2 there. So I think the ideal is anywhere from 6' to 6'2. But one must realise that for online dating, some people inflate their height. So probably the real ideal is actually still six feet (ie, women who meet 6'2 guys realise they are actually 6'. And women who meet 6' guys realise they are shy of 6'). Again, this is pure conjecture.
Quote from: NewHeights on March 05, 2015, 03:14:23 PMI have a problem with your chart, and it has to do with the way it's scaled. There is a minute difference in absolute percentage terms from 5 10" to 6' 2", but the way the graph is scaled makes it look like a significant difference.
That's true, thanks for the observation. So, as I said any height from 6' or thereabouts is probably fine.
Thing I wanna bring out from this graph, is that, there is a ceiling effect, as observed by other researchers.
Ie, yes, men can be "too tall" for comfort.
Quote from: ItsMyLife on March 05, 2015, 03:19:14 PMI had a good looking guy tell me that being good looking isn't that good after all cos some girls might be after you for your looks.
Perhaps the same logic might apply to height. But either way, I live only once so I guess I will go for the best height I can. I will always age later, and look worse, etc, that will filter away the superficial ones.
Being good looking is what saved me from having to date unattractive girls despite being very short. So I thank God it at least got that naturally...
I want women to like me because they're attracted to me and because they like my personality. It's all part of the package. I figure, if I can go to the gym and manipulate my body and look good, I want the height too. It's just like I might date a girl that had a nose job but previously I may not have attracted to her. Cosmetic surgery is mainly to help our own confidence and how we feel about ourselves, but if it gives us more dating options, that's just icing on the cake.
Quote from: YellowSpike on March 05, 2015, 03:24:50 PMBeing good looking is what saved me from having to date unattractive girls despite being very short. So I thank God it at least got that naturally...
I want women to like me because they're attracted to me and because they like my personality. It's all part of the package. I figure, if I can go to the gym and manipulate my body and look good, I want the height too. It's just like I might date a girl that had a nose job but previously I may not have attracted to her. Cosmetic surgery is mainly to help our own confidence and how we feel about ourselves, but if it gives us more dating options, that's just icing on the cake.
I'm right with you Yellow. The idea of a girl setting a minimum height filter on a dating site at 6' makes me cringe at the thought of such shallow girl, and I would never want to encounter or talk to that type of person. I also would want a girl who falls for my personality.
I can only understand a girl doing that if the girl is very tall herself.
Also, The chart posted is very telling for two reasons.
1. TALL is NOT a huge advantage, otherwise the percentage would have jumped more at 6' plus
2. 5' 7" and up seems like the place to be, but even the difference between 5' 5" and 6' 2" in absolute percentage terms is not that huge. 5' 5" guys still have a chance!
Quote from: ItsMyLife on March 05, 2015, 02:56:04 PM
The ideal height shown in this graph is 6'2 and 6'5 to 6'8. The percentage of contacts by women levels off between 6'2 to 6'5 by a curve, so you must be either exactly 6'2 or 6'5 to 6'8 and not somewhere in between or less/more than these height to get the highest percentage of contact by female.
Quote from: NewHeights on March 05, 2015, 03:52:23 PMI'm right with you Yellow. The idea of a girl setting a minimum height filter on a dating site at 6' makes me cringe at the thought of such shallow girl, and I would never want to encounter or talk to that type of person. I also would want a girl who falls for my personality.
I can only understand a girl doing that if the girl is very tall herself.
Also, The chart posted is very telling for two reasons.
1. TALL is NOT a huge advantage, otherwise the percentage would have jumped more at 6' plus
2. 5' 7" and up seems like the place to be, but even the difference between 5' 5" and 6' 2" in absolute percentage terms is not that huge. 5' 5" guys still have a chance!
I agree with pretty much everything you said...but being tall is a huge advantage (all else being equal), particularly with online dating. But as we said, who would want to marry a woman who filters out based on that?
5'7"+ isn't bad as long as you have other things going for you. It's below 5'7" when things start to get really bad and you're always called out for being short.
Quote from: Smallguy on March 05, 2015, 04:01:48 PMThe ideal height shown in this graph is 6'2 and 6'5 to 6'8. The percentage of contacts by women levels off between 6'2 to 6'5 by a curve, so you must be either exactly 6'2 or 6'5 to 6'8 and not somewhere in between or less/more than these height to get the highest percentage of contact by female.
Urrgghh! What the fruck guys? Why do we need such a huge dating pool? Do you have enough time to date each and every one of the millions of girls in a 6' 2" man's dating pool?
I just want one girl at a time please lol. I don't need tens of millions in this "dating pool".
I'm sorry, but I'm just getting sick of this fantasy idea of a "HUGE DATING POOL".
Quote from: Smallguy on March 05, 2015, 04:01:48 PMThe ideal height shown in this graph is 6'2 and 6'5 to 6'8. The percentage of contacts by women levels off between 6'2 to 6'5 by a curve, so you must be either exactly 6'2 or 6'5 to 6'8 and not somewhere in between or less/more than these height to get the highest percentage of contact by female.
yeap but probably since straight guys inflate their heights, 6'2 on a dating app might well be 6'1 or 6'. So we can bring this data to co-relate to the other data that we have.
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