Quote from: GROWtalORdieTRYING1 on October 08, 2014, 03:08:16 PMmost people who are not happy with their height seem to think that they would be most happy in the 185-195 range.
I agree. That height range is extreme, as it's in the 90-99th percentile, and claiming it ideal is more of an obsession thing, than anything else. Which in the end is closely connected to OHC and BDD.
Quote from: Uppland on October 08, 2014, 03:29:26 PMHere's an example of the response to a similar question:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20140105204518AAReBQt
That's a very poor source. Try this one:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskWomen/wiki/height
It was just an example I can't produce any real evidence but I think it's common knowledge that women like tall men. As for how tall exactly, well; that's what this thread is about.
from exclide.
Quotea curvilinear effect of height on reproductive success in human males.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3277695/
Can't argue with science. Checkmate.
its a bell shape curve. all the data shows it.
upland. you have a make believe reality in your head where you think taller = more sexy.
in reality it is a bell shape curve. welcome to reality.
That is a study on reproductive succes i.e number of children, the paper makes an assumption in the very first sentence of the abstract that Human male height is associated with ... potentially with reproductive success. This paper doesn't measure attractivness from what I've read so far rather it examines the link between height and number of children. I'm not aware of any link between attractivness and reproduction -I don't know anything that points to that more attarctive people necessarily have more children.
Even in the introduction the study clearly states that tall men are significantly more attarctive than average and short men:
QuoteHuman males are ± 8% larger than females (Gray and Wolfe 1980), and male body size (i.e. height) plays a role in both human mate choice and intra-sexual competition. Women prefer taller rather than shorter men in online dating advertisements (Salska et al. 2008), questionnaire studies (Fink et al. 2007) and lab-based preference studies (reviewed by Courtiol et al. 2010), and these preferences seem to translate into real word decisions: taller men receive more responses to online dating advertisements (Pawlowski and Koziel 2002), are more likely to obtain a date (Sheppard and Stratham 1989), are more desirable in a speed-dating setting (Kurzban and Weeden 2005), have more attractive female partners (Feingold 1982) and are more likely to be married (Pawlowski et al. 2000).
So by linking that one paper I'm afraid you've proven very little but thanks for adding to the discussion I appreciate it -seriously I do.
do you know how women make babies?
I will give you a hint, the find a guy who they find attractive and put their penis in them. they don't pick ugly guys if they can help it.
wrong: don't try to manipulate the wording:
QuoteWomen prefer taller rather than shorter
it did not say women prefer tall, it stated taller. that is a very big difference. taller means taller than short which can also mean average. or (simply taller than their own height)
finally: you don't even understand the significance of the study (or how to determine statistics): every single personality, characteristic, and expression or trait is present at every single height, so if height was not preferred at as close to normality then women would have chosen taller men. but they did not.
my study still trumps your "its common knowledge" rubbish. your the type who try to state that everyone's study is wrong for some reason but you don't post anything to back up your own statements. rather you rely on "common knowledge". its laughable at best.
ps taller is not what we should even be discussing we are discussing excessively tall.
all studies point to the fact clearly that it is a bell shaped curve.
you have not even stated why (you believe) taller men did not make more babies than all other height groups.
you cant just say something emotionally based and not even have a theory.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886907002504
another study about height preference, but i don't understand the charts http://origin-ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0191886907002504-gr1.jpg .
your exactly right endomorphisme.
I didn't want to get into it. but it is true you hit the nail on the head. women want a gy a specific amount of cm above their own height(as an average). and so you have to gage the sd1 for womens height as an indicator for best male height.
the only advantage of going beyond that is for social power but not sexual power as women will find you less attractive.
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