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NEW YORK (Reuters) - While researchers have long shown that tall people earn more than their shorter counterparts, it’s not only social discrimination that accounts for this inequality — tall people are just smarter than their height-challenged peers, a new study finds.
“As early as age three — before schooling has had a chance to play a role — and throughout childhood, taller children perform significantly better on cognitive tests,” wrote Anne Case and Christina Paxson of Princeton University in a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
The findings were based primarily on two British studies that followed children born in 1958 and 1970, respectively, through adulthood and a U.S. study on height and occupational choice.
Other studies have pointed to low self-esteem, better health that accompanies greater height, and social discrimination as culprits for lower pay for shorter people.
But researchers Case and Paxson believe the height advantage in the job world is more than just a question of image.
“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.
But the researchers said the differences in performance crop up long before the tall people enter the job force. Prenatal care and the time between birth and the age of 3 are critical periods for determining future cognitive ability and height.
“The speed of growth is more rapid during this period than at any other during the life course, and nutritional needs are greatest at this point,” the researchers wrote.
The research confirms previous studies that show that early nutrition is an important predictor of intelligence and height.
“Prenatal care and prenatal nutrition are just incredibly important, even more so than we already knew,” Case said in an interview.
Since the study’s data only included populations in the United Kingdom and the United States, the findings could not be applied to other regions, Case said.
And how tall are the researchers?
They are both about 5 feet 8 inches tall, well above the average height of 5 feet 4 inches for American women.
Quick, get those NBA players on the String Theory
GiG > Sequ.
I'd have to agree
i'm fine with this.
I believe this rule only applies up to 6'8".I'd have to agree
Any comment from all those Asian valedictorians?
Vindicated!!!
This always happens when journalists try to interpret scientific findings.
We get dumb, misleading headlines like "tall people are smarter." Great. Reuters should go back to things it is good at, like anti-Israeli propaganda.
The actual study says that people who have better nutrition between ages 0-3 have greater physical and cognitive development in adulthood.
SmartyI didn't get a chance to read it yet. And what about girls like me, I was super tall when I was in elementray compartive to everyone else, and now I'm a whole 5'3.
I'm inclined to disagree ... my ex-husband is 6'3 and he's a complete dumbass.
The dumbest person I know is 6ft 6. I would have to say the opposite is true. Short and medium height people seem to be the smarter ones.
does this also applies to blondes? or did they not add them to the statistic?
spurswoman
Very much so. I read the article thinking... ing nutrition.
When they did the study, they should have tried to statistically separate the importance of nutrition and height as separate factors.
If in fact the study did say it was only nutrition, and that height was not an independent variables, then the authors Case and Paxson are also to blame for being misleading (assuming they actually said what they are quoted as saying).
The ing article is 52 pages. I can hardly read 10 pages without falling asleep now.
What? This is the first I've heard about this....While researchers have long shown that tall people earn more than their shorter counterparts
And this has got to be the dumbest "scientific" study and conclusion that I've heard in a while; According to this...I'm a dumbass
I recall watching a do entary discussing our evolution and scientists attributed the development of the human brain to protein intake.
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Well then, there must be a lot of short people in this forum.
I've heard for years that taller people are more likely to get promoted, get elected, etc., so this is consistent with that.
Look at it this way, you can be smarter if you just wear some nice sexy heels.And this has got to be the dumbest "scientific" study and conclusion that I've heard in a while; According to this...I'm a dumbass
That means I'm smart!
I thought it was the size of your forehead that shows intelligence.... big forehead=big brain.. no?
Take that, es.
Wasn't it good looking people who got promoted, etc over non-good looking people.
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