[Research] More inches = More $$$

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DrSupey

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Study finds tall people earn more
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New Australian research has found a person's height can have an impact on the amount of money they earn.

The study by Professor Andrew Leigh from the ANU and Dr Michael Kortt from Sydney University found that people who are six feet (1.83 metres) tall can earn $950 more each year compared to those of average height.

This means being 5 centimetres taller than average can increase a worker's pay packet by 1.5 per cent.

Researchers compared a range of body sizes from Australian adults with pay levels, and found that being taller had more of an impact on men.

"We see this effect both for men and women, but it's strongest for men," he said.

"For example, an extra two inches or five centimetres of height tends to get a man another $1,000 a year and the effect for women is a little smaller.

"The wage gain from another 2 inches (5cm) of height is approximately equal to wage gain from one more year of labour market experience."

Professor Leigh says it is not clear why height has made such a difference in wages.

However the research did not find any impact on wage levels for people who were obese or overweight.

"This is in contrast with previous studies that used older data from the United States and Germany and found that people with higher BMI scores earned lower wages," Professor Leigh said.

"It is difficult to know whether this is due to cross-country differences, or changes over time. Perhaps Australians are less likely to discriminate against overweight and obese workers than the other nations.

"Or maybe we cannot find an effect because we are using more recent data than the other studies, and the majority of workers are now overweight or obese."
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Study finds tall people earn more - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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meh, it's not about agreeing or disagreeing with everything, it's knowing the statistical significance of a result
 
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meh, it's not about agreeing or disagreeing with everything, it's knowing the statistical significance of a result
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from looking at the tables in the last couple of pages the results look statistically significant, but with an R^2 of ~0.2 for most of their models i don't know why they even bothered publishing this shit

it might have been possible to take it even a little bit seriously if they had also accounted for real determinants of earning power (experience, education, etc) and then checked for the statistical significance of body dimensions as an additional variable, but all that stuff is completely omitted. junk science.
 
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I'd say a majority of leaders at the place I work are of above average height. This goes for director level upwards.
 
This isn't really news - there's been plenty of similar studies on the subject "Will being taller help you in work?"

In general, being taller is an across the board improvement in basically everything - your pay, your chances of getting hired, chances of getting promoted, and so on. You really don't want to be that much below 6 feet, or it's likely going to hurt you.


Cliffs: If you're a guy who's 5'8 or shorter you're fucked compared to your competition that's 6'2-6'5
 
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