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“As early as age three — before schooling has had a chance to play a role — and throughout childhood, taller children perform significantly better on cognitive tests,” wrote Anne Case and Christina Paxson of Princeton University in a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The findings were based primarily on two British studies that followed children born in 1958 and 1970, respectively, through adulthood and a U.S. study on height and occupational choice.

Other studies have pointed to low self-esteem, better health that accompanies greater height, and social discrimination as culprits for lower pay for shorter people.

But researchers Case and Paxson believe the height advantage in the job world is more than just a question of image.

“As adults, taller individuals are more likely to select into higher paying occupations that require more advanced verbal and numerical skills and greater intelligence, for which they earn handsome returns,” wrote the researchers.

For both men and women in the United States and the United Kingdom, a height advantage of four inches equated with a 10 percent increase in wages.

But the researchers said the differences in performance crop up long before the tall people enter the job force. Prenatal care and the time between birth and the age of 3 are critical periods for determining future cognitive ability and height.

“The speed of growth is more rapid during this period than at any other during the life course, and nutritional needs are greatest at this point,” the researchers wrote.

The research confirms previous studies that show that early nutrition is an important predictor of intelligence and height.

“Research on the determinants of cognitive ability suggests an important role for nutrition, which may well prove to be a significant link between height and intelligence,” they wrote.

A copy of the paper can be found at http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12466.pdf.

Taken from The Independent

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Tall men are more likely to receive a longer education than short men, according to Swedish research covering almost a million men.

One reason could be discrimination against short students, says the author of the report, which has appeared in the International Journal of Epidemiology.

The study examined the relationship between the height of over 950,000 Swedish men born between 1950 and 1975 and the level of education they reached in the 27 years after they turned 18.

43% of the men who were taller than 194 centimetres had at least one year of college education – compared to only 22% of the men who were shorter than 165 centimetres.

“It’s possible that there is some sort of stigma or discrimination in society,” said Finn Rasmussen at the Karolinska Institute’s Department of Public Health Sciences.

“There is discrimination against people with different ethnic backgrounds, so why not against short people?” he told The Local.

The men’s height and IQ were measured when they joined Sweden’s military service system as conscripts. Rasmussen and his colleagues followed the men’s social and educational development through their personal numbers.

“This is a very large study conducted over a long period of time. After adjusting for IQ and socio-economic group, the relationship is still very strong,” he said.

Rasmussen, who as a 178cm tall associate professor is in the minority for educational attainment in his height group, pointed out that historically there have been very strong differences in height between socio-economic groups.

“Poor people have tended to be shorter, rich people have tended to be taller. And over time there is genetic selection as tall people marry tall people and have tall children,” he said.

Such a vast quantity of data is only available for the male section of the Swedish population and Rasmussen declined to speculate on whether the same pattern would be expected among women.

However, adjustments were also made to account for the fact that people are generally getting taller and enjoying longer periods of education.

“The youngest group was only born in 1975, so this is still current. The pattern does not seem to be changing,” said Rasmussen.

This will be my only post that sways from the usual topics at NOT MUCH FITS. But this is the most important issue in the world today.

It is time to stand up TALL and be counted.

Every single day, 30,000 children are dying as a result of extreme poverty. This year, 2005, we finally have the resources, knowledge and opportunity to end this shameful situation.

While you have read this, someone else has died.

Just think about that for a moment.

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The largest living penguins are the Emperors. Emperor penguins stand around 1.2metres tall and weigh around 40kg.

However, in the fossil records penguin bones have been found which suggest there were some now extinct penguins that may have been as tall as 2 metres!

You put in your own height and it compares you to the height of loads of famous people, American in origin, but good fun. Living and dead it lists everyone from Adolf Hitler to Will Smith.