Posted on Sep 23, 2020, 8:05 pm
#1
Lately I see some people here undermine an inch.
I am aware that no height is ever fully enough until we are 6'2".
If you ask women how tall would their ideal men be, they mostly would say 6'-6'3".
But when I asked them the minimum acceptable height, almost unanimously they all said "as long as not shorter than me".
So now we've established that at the the very basic level, we have to be at least same height as women for our height not to give us an unnecessary challenge, more than that, it becomes more supplementary rather than a necessity.
Thus, it'd be interesting to know how our heights compare to girls' height
I used this calculator to compare to average height of Scandinavian girls which is 167cm/5.5.75".
5'5" - 40.1 Percentile
| 14.2% jump
5'6" - 54.3 Percentile
| 13.6% jump
5'7" - 67.9 Percentile
| 11.5% jump
5'8" - 79.4 Percentile
| 8.7% jump
5'9" - 88.1 Percentile
Summary
The biggest jumps we have here are from 5'5" to 5'6" and 5'6" to 5'7".
So from 5'5" to 5'6" basically takes you from below average girl's height to slightly above average. From taller than only 40% of girls to taller than 54% of girls. That's 14% of the female population. Honestly, I don't know how many millions people we're looking at here.
From 5'6" to 5'7". We still have a high jump of 13.6%, only slightly less than the previous one. Thus makes it a crucial inch.
From 5'7" to 5'8". The jump has decreased by 2% to 11.5%. But it's still a lot of people and at 5'8" you are taller than 80% of women. Thus makes it less crucial than the previous 2", but still great to have it if possible.
From 5'8" to 5'9". The jump has decreased even more by 2.8% to only 8.7%. An even less crucial jump, but would still be great to have because you'd be taller than 88% of women at this height.
I am aware that no height is ever fully enough until we are 6'2".
If you ask women how tall would their ideal men be, they mostly would say 6'-6'3".
But when I asked them the minimum acceptable height, almost unanimously they all said "as long as not shorter than me".
So now we've established that at the the very basic level, we have to be at least same height as women for our height not to give us an unnecessary challenge, more than that, it becomes more supplementary rather than a necessity.
Thus, it'd be interesting to know how our heights compare to girls' height
I used this calculator to compare to average height of Scandinavian girls which is 167cm/5.5.75".
5'5" - 40.1 Percentile
| 14.2% jump
5'6" - 54.3 Percentile
| 13.6% jump
5'7" - 67.9 Percentile
| 11.5% jump
5'8" - 79.4 Percentile
| 8.7% jump
5'9" - 88.1 Percentile
Summary
The biggest jumps we have here are from 5'5" to 5'6" and 5'6" to 5'7".
So from 5'5" to 5'6" basically takes you from below average girl's height to slightly above average. From taller than only 40% of girls to taller than 54% of girls. That's 14% of the female population. Honestly, I don't know how many millions people we're looking at here.
From 5'6" to 5'7". We still have a high jump of 13.6%, only slightly less than the previous one. Thus makes it a crucial inch.
From 5'7" to 5'8". The jump has decreased by 2% to 11.5%. But it's still a lot of people and at 5'8" you are taller than 80% of women. Thus makes it less crucial than the previous 2", but still great to have it if possible.
From 5'8" to 5'9". The jump has decreased even more by 2.8% to only 8.7%. An even less crucial jump, but would still be great to have because you'd be taller than 88% of women at this height.
