lol, midgets

This blog is boring. Here's something not in the textbook, nerds.
From slate.com (kinda like web-news),

The gist: "Tall people earn more because they're smarter."

The grit:
"Each additional inch of height adds roughly 2 percent to average annual earnings, for both men and women. So, if the average heights of our hypothetical groups were 6 feet and 5 feet 7 inches, the average pay difference between them would be 10 percent." (6' = 1.8m 5'7" = 1.70m)

"But why? One possibility is height discrimination in favor of the tall. A second involves adolescence. Silverman of the University of Michigan discovered that adult earnings are more sharply related to height at age 16 than to adult height—suggesting, scarily, that the high-school social order determined the adult economic order. For boys at least, height at 16 affects things like social and athletic success—scoring chicks and baskets or, as the authors put it, "participation in clubs and athletics." And maybe those things affect later earning power."

".....of Princeton University, find that tall people earn more, on average, because they're smarter, on average."

".....find that taller people are more prevalent in occupations such as executive/manager, professional, and sales relative to occupations like laborer, farmer, or machine operator."

"t is possible that early childhood care, including prenatal care, can increase both height and cognitive ability. But maybe the Fates just have it in for short people."

http://www.slate.com/id/2148759/

Ok, you may carry on studying. Unless you are below 1.70m. In which case, don't bother.