[via Taller people are smarter: study - Yahoo! News [1]]:
"As adults, taller individuals are more likely to select into higher paying occupations that require more advanced verbal and numerical skills and greater intelligence, for which they earn handsome returns," they wrote.
For both men and women in the United States and the United Kingdom, a height advantage of four inches equated with a 10 percent increase in wages on average.
I saw a documentary about Howard Zinn [2] the other day and noticed how freakishly tall the man is. If he's supposed to be smarter than the rest, why isn't he, like, the president or sometin' ...
And if 5 inches above the average American (I had no idea gringos were so short ... 5'4"?!?), why is it that I am not a millionaire? And why am I missing $10.
I don't know ... I feel ... short-changed.
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