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(193 cm is not 6ft 3in. It is in fact 6ft 4 in. 190 is 6ft 3in.) |
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The '''heightpill''' (a subset of the [[blackpill]]) is the realization that females prefer men who are much taller than average, that a man's height is a hard limit to his attractiveness, and that females feel visceral disgust toward [[manlet]]s. | The '''heightpill''' (a subset of the [[blackpill]]) is the realization that females prefer men who are much taller than average, that a man's height is a hard limit to his attractiveness, and that females feel visceral disgust toward [[manlet]]s. | ||
Research indicates that in terms of ''partner count'', the heightpill only really affects 1% of the shortest men (4'11" or less; 151 cm or less) and even here men only have a Cohen's of d = .22 fewer lifetime partners than tall people | Research indicates that in terms of ''partner count'', the heightpill only really affects 1% of the shortest men (4'11" or less; 151 cm or less) and even here men only have a Cohen's of d = .22 fewer lifetime partners than tall people,<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1474704915604563</ref> so even though women have strong preferences for height, these preferences only translate modestly into actual pairings.<ref>https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0054186</ref> Such statistics may be too old to reflect very recent dating realities though. The salience of the heightpill probably comes from the [[redpill]] that men do engage in [[mogging|physical intimidation]] of one another in which short guys will lose more often.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Among_male_university_students.2C_only_cues_of_physical_dominance_over_other_men_predicted_their_mating_success</ref> | ||
==Intro== | ==Intro== | ||