Property News · April 30, 2015

Do tall people really deserve to earn more?


A new study says tall people are more prosperous because on average they are cleverer and have better social skills. So what are short people supposed to do?Tall people. They’re faster runners, see more at gigs, can reach the top shelf and have the innate ability to pull off jumpsuits. Now, according to new research by Ohio State University, they also deserve to be paid more than the rest of us.The study looked at the long acknowledged “height premium” in employment: it is estimated that a 6ft tall person – invariably a man – is likely to earn £100,000 more in a 30-year career than someone who is 5ft 4in, and that every extra inch in height converts to hundreds of pounds per annum. Researchers found that this bias can be explained not by an unconscious and thoroughly unjust favouring of tall people but because they are in fact more intelligent and have greater social skills. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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