
MrRubiks
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I keep seeing people in BP communities claim that you need to be at least 6’3” nowadays or it’s over. Interestingly, they’ll include graphs like this one in “support” of their claim. I’m sure you’ve seen this. Let’s take a look though. There’s a maximum at 72 in (6 foot). The magnitude of the slope leading to this point is greater than the magnitude of the slope after this point, so you’re punished more harshly for being too short than too tall, which is obviously expected.
Let’s just call this graph A for acceptance. If you’re 6 foot, then the percent of girls who reject you based on height is 100% - A(72), which looks to be about 1%. Note that this is ALL girls who reject a guy on the basis of height at 6 foot, so the girls who require 6’3” or taller are a subset of this, i.e., they’re less than 1% of the population.
Did I miss anything here? Is there a sampling bias or something, or are people just astonishingly stupid?
Let’s just call this graph A for acceptance. If you’re 6 foot, then the percent of girls who reject you based on height is 100% - A(72), which looks to be about 1%. Note that this is ALL girls who reject a guy on the basis of height at 6 foot, so the girls who require 6’3” or taller are a subset of this, i.e., they’re less than 1% of the population.
Did I miss anything here? Is there a sampling bias or something, or are people just astonishingly stupid?

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