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The rise of the 'short king': Why women now want to marry a shorter man
03-24-2022, 01:35 PM
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Originally Posted By Ken-O⏩
yep. and i've read more than that. just quickly looked it up to post. there's a much more comprehensive overview somewhere. i forgot whereYou read the study?
If the asian and hispanic population is increasing and the caucasian is decreasing, what you think is going to happen to average height?
If the asian and hispanic population is increasing and the caucasian is decreasing, what you think is going to happen to average height?
that doesn't explain whats happening world wide though.
all the tallest countries have stopped and or receded. a few smaller have gotten bigger though
but avg. human height as stayed relatively stagnant for a while
03-24-2022, 02:00 PM
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this is NOT the comprehensive overview i was talking about. but a bit more to add:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ng-study-shows
“But growth also stagnated in the generations in which both parents were born in the Netherlands, and in the generations in which all four grandparents were born in the Netherlands. Men without a migration background did not get any taller and women without a migration background show a downward trend.”
Scientists have been quick to offer possible explanations, and even remedial solutions to the country’s height crisis.
Dr Gert Stulp, at the University of Groningen’s faculty of behavioural and social sciences, said that while theories at this point were merely speculative, he would be interested to see whether the economic crash in 2007 might have had an impact.
“Perhaps things like the financial crisis have meant that some children grew up in poorer conditions than in earlier cohorts,” he said. “Or perhaps inequality has risen: we know inequality affects average height, poorer childhood conditions lead to less growth in the vertical direction.”
The discovery of a similar trend in the US suggests that the related increased consumption of unhealthy fast food could be a factor, he suggested.
“Diets may have changed,” Stulp said. “Perhaps diets in the last years had fewer nutrients important for growth. This is believed to be the reason why the Americans are shrinking; poorer diets, more calories, but fewer nutrients. Even more speculatively, the decrease in height could be due to more people leaving out animal products in their diets. But again, there is no evidence for that.”
Stulp did not, however, rule out a switch to healthier food helping the Dutch maintain their table-topping record – and growing again. “Although there will of course be a physiological limit,” he said. “People are really not going to grow to an average height of three metres.”
The data is nevertheless a sober reminder for the Dutch that nothing stays the same for ever. More than a century ago, the tallest people were still mainly in North America and northern Europe, with Sweden and Norway standing proudly above all.
It was only in the first half of the 1900s that the Netherlands enjoyed a stunning growth spurt, hitting the heights in the 1950s.
at the very least, this still highlights that even if you can control for genetics (you can't. unless maybe forced). that's barely just scratching the surfaceScientists have been quick to offer possible explanations, and even remedial solutions to the country’s height crisis.
Dr Gert Stulp, at the University of Groningen’s faculty of behavioural and social sciences, said that while theories at this point were merely speculative, he would be interested to see whether the economic crash in 2007 might have had an impact.
“Perhaps things like the financial crisis have meant that some children grew up in poorer conditions than in earlier cohorts,” he said. “Or perhaps inequality has risen: we know inequality affects average height, poorer childhood conditions lead to less growth in the vertical direction.”
The discovery of a similar trend in the US suggests that the related increased consumption of unhealthy fast food could be a factor, he suggested.
“Diets may have changed,” Stulp said. “Perhaps diets in the last years had fewer nutrients important for growth. This is believed to be the reason why the Americans are shrinking; poorer diets, more calories, but fewer nutrients. Even more speculatively, the decrease in height could be due to more people leaving out animal products in their diets. But again, there is no evidence for that.”
Stulp did not, however, rule out a switch to healthier food helping the Dutch maintain their table-topping record – and growing again. “Although there will of course be a physiological limit,” he said. “People are really not going to grow to an average height of three metres.”
The data is nevertheless a sober reminder for the Dutch that nothing stays the same for ever. More than a century ago, the tallest people were still mainly in North America and northern Europe, with Sweden and Norway standing proudly above all.
It was only in the first half of the 1900s that the Netherlands enjoyed a stunning growth spurt, hitting the heights in the 1950s.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ng-study-shows
03-24-2022, 02:06 PM
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03-24-2022, 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted By HannoCometh⏩
but you apparently have no issue trying to make future generations low IQ.Nah, being shorter is bad. They'll pretend you're a "boomer", even when you're 3 to 4 decades younger.
Gotta be at least six feet tall nowadays.
Life is over if you're still shorter. I swear some of these shorter dudes who came before everybody wanted new generations to be the same size as 'em. Shocking. If I were a shorter dude, I certainly wouldn't actively try and make the next generations as "short" as I am. Shocking.
Gotta be at least six feet tall nowadays.
Life is over if you're still shorter. I swear some of these shorter dudes who came before everybody wanted new generations to be the same size as 'em. Shocking. If I were a shorter dude, I certainly wouldn't actively try and make the next generations as "short" as I am. Shocking.
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