Manlets... rise up.
Lenin was 5'5".
Stalin? 5'3"-5'6".
Robespierre? 5'3".
Toussaint Louverture? 5'4"!
Revolution runs in our tiny little veins, comrades. Our strides may be small, but our hearts and minds are enormous. π«‘
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Castro was 6β 3,
Mandela was 6β 1
Fred Hampton was 5β 10
Rokossovsky was 6β 6
The Revolution comes in all shapes and sizes comrades. Size matters not. We will march together!
(I'm like 5'7". I am the Height Collaborator.)
I'm 5'7" in a good pair of walking shoes.
I'm about to get some Doc Martens again, I think. Not for the height boost, just cuz they're punk as hell π
oh and my current shoes are full of holes lol
Jesus I had no idea Castro was that tall
Nelson Mandela was not 6'4, at least not when he was older. Maybe when he was younger he was that tall. If I had to guess, I'd say around 185cm/ 6'1.
Source: stood next to a "life size" Nelson Mandela statue. I was the same height
Edit: Okay I decided to google it, and according to the Nelson Mandela Foundation's website, he was 184cm tall. Close enough guess from me, turns out the statue really was life size.
My mistake, he was listed at 6 foot 1/4 inch, and I accidentally misconstrued that as 6 foot 4.
Best comment ever π!!
rich people eat better during development
we gotta nail some titanium spikes into spines to get richer people
Maybe I should put my height on my resume
Are you telling me the grad is not adding the 1.3% for height?
The others are yet to ask how tall I am
It can be influenced both by the fact that tall people tend to be promoted more and by the fact that kids of richer people eat better and grow taller as a result and that they partially inherit their parents' socioeconomic status.
Damn, no wonder I'm so short. I'm poor as fuck. Going to need to get some cash so I can reach stuff on the top shelf.
the capitalists don't want you to know this, but using a ladder is more stable than standing on a pile of money (!!)
Don't listen to this, it's just communist propaganda!
Get some poors to tape the money together and attach them to the bottom of your boots. True capitalists wear money stilts and they are taller than commie ladders!
Inflation is when everyone gets taller
Note that this is about the association between height and income. It is possible that a confuser variable or set of variables is/are influencing both income and height, thus producing the observed correlation between income and height. In this case, the association would not imply causation. But even if this is just association and not causation, its a significant fact, because then there is some unkown set of factors making taller individuals having higher probabilities of earn more.
to the torture rack then
Procrustes intensify
Eating better food, breathing less pollutants, and experiencing less stress make you taller
From what I understand a lot of it is actually epigenetics and has to do with your parents or grandparents experiencing food scarcity in their lives, which may also explain the wealth disparity stat considering generational wealth being passed on and whatnot
yeah, epigenetics too. Basically the stuff I said but for your parents/grandparents as well
Shorter people tend to live longer though and have fewer cardiovascular disease risks as well as cancer.
Do you have a source for this?
See any 9ft people walking around?
It's primarily because they have lower blood pressure in general which leads to less risk to cardiovascular disease. Shorter body takes less pressure to pump blood to the head. The cancer thing is because smaller bodies have fewer cells. Fewer cells, less of a chance one of them malfunctions and turns into cancer.
I see, but do you have a source that I can share?
It does explain why countries experiencing more malnutrition tend to be poorer and shorter. Guatemalans are a good example of this. Our height demographics are skewed by the rural poor who are famously around 5 feet at the maximum height. People in the cities tend to be closer to five foot nine.
Is professional sports prominent enough to be a major contributor to the difference? The NBA is an obvious one, but the NFL average height is around 6'2" I think
No, the number of professional athletes (paid above this amount) is tiny compared to the population
Fake news, I'm as tall as I am poor.
wow, such meritocracy.
Welp, seems like im an exception to this rule. 197 cm tall, 0 income.
Correlation != causation
Being richer means eating better, which means growing taller. Maybe it isn't height that gets you income, but the opposite.
Thatβs certainly one strong explanation (makes sense to me), but we canβt conclusively say if one causes the other. All we know is that thereβs a correlation between height and income. All other conclusions made require additional assumptions.
So you show your inches at the first interview or is it more of an annual review type of situation?
Manlets be coping.
Damn, that is cold hearted coming from the goddess of virginity, hearth, family and home. That comment didnβt feel homely at all Hestia!
This is the paper the article and graphic are based on:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0230555
It's using a survey from mainland China.