Taller People Smarter Than Short People

[decoski]

According to this study, taller people are smarter than shorter people: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/8/25/194542.shtml?s=ic So, who here will admit to being short? LOL

[Meh_Gerbil]

According to this study, taller people are smarter than shorter people: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/8/25/194542.shtml?s=ic So, who here will admit to being short? LOL

Short people are dumber because they are used to having tall people take care of them.

[Telleriab2]

According to this study, taller people are smarter than shorter people: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/8/25/194542.shtml?s=ic So, who here will admit to being short? LOL

At 5'4", me. I will admit to being short.

On a side note, I have read about quite a few classical music composer notables who were short. Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Schubert were all under 5'6". I got that from book I read in my youth. I just call them the "Towering Giants of the Music World."

[Crow]

Hmmm. I'm 5' 2". I don't feel particularly stupid.

[Trout]

6'-3" in my stocking feet.

I always knew short people were stupid.

[DesertBerean]

6'-3" in my stocking feet.

I always knew short people were stupid. :brood: I'm 5' 1 1/2" So much for our friendship, Trout. :hmph:

[Bill the Cat]

5'8 and just shy of genius level IQ. I passed the MENSA entrance exam but didn't have the fee $$. I'm 1 inch below the average for men... so much for the studies :hehe: :geek:

[Tickle Me Goody]

According to this study, taller people are smarter than shorter people: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/8/25/194542.shtml?s=ic So, who here will admit to being short? LOL

I am short and it pleases me ----- because it helps me to keep my weight below my IQ.

GG

[norwegen]

Taller People Smarter Than Short PeopleI already knew that.

But then, of course, I'm tall.

[Trout]

:brood: I'm 5' 1 1/2" So much for our friendship, Trout. :hmph:

Awww, don't be like that, DB. I'll still be there for you when you need someone to tell you what all those big words mean in the Sunday comics.

[norwegen]

On short people, rectal-cranial inversions are easier to perform.

[James Peter]

I'm 6'4 and also....reasonably smart. Ok, I'm just a modest genius but anyway. And you have to remember with people like Mozart that whilst 5'6 is short for a guy today it wasn't really 250 years ago. You have to look at short people today and you know...in my opinion short people are generally less able at well, everything, than tall people like me... :wink:

[Telleriab2]

I'm 6'4 and also....reasonably smart. Ok, I'm just a modest genius but anyway. And you have to remember with people like Mozart that whilst 5'6 is short for a guy today it wasn't really 250 years ago. You have to look at short people today and you know...in my opinion short people are generally less able at well, everything, than tall people like me... :wink:

Uh-huh. Right. Sure.

:smile:

[themuzicman]

5'8 and just shy of genius level IQ. I passed the MENSA entrance exam but didn't have the fee $$. I'm 1 inch below the average for men... so much for the studies :hehe: :geek:
6'1" and I'm smarter than Bill... Sounds like that study is about right.

[norwegen]

You have to look at short people today and you know...in my opinion short people are generally less able at well, everything, than tall people like me... :wink:Not so. Short people are better able to walk upright under giraffes than tall people are.

Sure, the need to walk under a giraffe doesn't come along very often for some people, but when it does, . . . well, . . . it's good to be short.

[Malista_Dove]

This is kind of offending. I am 5'3 I have never been considered stupid. I have had a 3.5-4.0 GPA in school my whole life. I was in Gifted and Talented and I love to be educated and taught. I also love to research. Being short has nothing to do with your intellectual level.
:brood:

[Meh_Gerbil]

This is kind of offending. I am 5'3 I have never been considered stupid. I have had a 3.5-4.0 GPA in school my whole life. I was in Gifted and Talented and I love to be educated and taught. I also love to research. Being short has nothing to do with your intellectual level.
:brood:

Meh_Gerbil kneels down to pat Malista_Dove tenderly on the head.

[Malista_Dove]

Meh_Gerbil kneels down to pat Malista_Dove tenderly on the head.

Funny... :tongue: As long as I'm not considered stupid..lol

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

I'm 6'4. Not super brilliant but not a dumb one either.

[Warcraft3]

There might be some truth to this...

Ive found that I am much smarter than children, especially newborns.

I mean they cant even roll over for crying out loud!!!

I always suspected that I was smarter than children and babies especially.... and now I finally know why...although at only 5'6 I couldnt have figured that out on my own.

[God_is_personal]

but I thought girls were smarter than boys...at least, in MY school it was like this...at least, in MY case > I was a guy, taller than a number of the girls AND they had SMALLER heads!!!!

how is it that we have females with SMALLER
. . . . . . . . . . heads smarter than guys TALLER?

[Jedidiah]

If you check out those studies you will discover that a positive correlation does exist. It is however quite small. The same goes for studies showing women smarter than men. The correlation is too small to make any individual predictions. It does however suggest a reason that I seem to be less able to concentrate as I get shorter with age.

Oh well .. .. .. .. .. ..

Jed

[docjam]

but I thought girls were smarter than boys...at least, in MY school it was like this...at least, in MY case > I was a guy, taller than a number of the girls AND they had SMALLER heads!!!!

how is it that we have females with SMALLER
. . . . . . . . . . heads smarter than guys TALLER?

FIRST OF ALL...
actually, it's not the women tend to be smarter than men, it's that they tend to be more disciplined. On the average, men will score higher across the board in almost any subject than women, especially in areas of critical thinking. However women tend to be way more disciplined thus things such as school GPA's and such would tend to suggest that overall they're slightly smarter when in fact this isn't really the case.

SECOND OF ALL...
I also happen to know or a fact that brandalf is 4'11''

THIRD OF ALL...i also know that knowledge is nothing is we have not the wisdom and/or discernment to use that knowledge appropriately.

FOURTH OF ALL...do we get anti-spam in here? I'm trying to lengthen this a little so as to get an extra point...

FINALLY... I'M 6'8'', THE STUDIES MUST BE ACCURATE!!!

[Jezz]

I don't think anyone in this thread is particularly smart, given that none of them seem to realise how much better and more efficient it is to use the metric system for weights and measures.

I'm 188cm, for anyone smart enough to work that out... :wink:

[Darth Executor]

I don't think anyone in this thread is particularly smart, given that none of them seem to realise how much better and more efficient it is to use the metric system for weights and measures.

I'm 188cm, for anyone smart enough to work that out... :wink:

That should be about 6'1-6'2. I prefer metric but this place is full of Americans so I have to use imperial or their eyes glaze over.

Oh, and I'm 183 cm (6'0).

[Stabbytheclown]

Hmm. I'm 5'10", which is taller than most people on the west coast of Scotland. In some places here there does seem to be a link between height and intelligence. I would speculate the reason is that people from a poor background are on average less educated. Coupled with a poor diet and a smoking habit from age ten results in stunted growth correlating with lower intelligence.

[Jezz]

That should be about 6'1-6'2.
You get the prize. :smile:

I prefer metric but this place is full of Americans so I have to use imperial or their eyes glaze over.
Ahh, but they're never gonna learn to come out of the dark ages and into the 21st century if we keep pandering to their backward ways...

Oh, and I'm 183 cm (6'0).
Wow, there's a lot of pretty tall people here.

[norwegen]

Wow, there's a lot of pretty tall people here.Well, maybe not pretty.

[Jedidiah]

I don't think anyone in this thread is particularly smart, given that none of them seem to realise how much better and more efficient it is to use the metric system for weights and measures.
I would have agreed with that in my youth, but now I feel that customary is superior to universal.

I've gotten shorter with age, as well.

[Jezz]

I would have agreed with that in my youth, but now I feel that customary is superior to universal.
What you really mean is, you feel that your customs are superior to everyone elses... :smile:

[docjam]

I don't think anyone in this thread is particularly smart, given that none of them seem to realise how much better and more efficient it is to use the metric system for weights and measures.

I'm 188cm, for anyone smart enough to work that out... :wink:188 is 6'2'' and I am 203 cm.

When I was in second grade we used to play around the world with math flash cards to learn our multiplication tables. We each had a little paper car up on the wall, which was designed as a race track. There were twelve spaces on the wall and every time we made it around the world, we could move the car a space. If we completed the track we got a prize. To go around the world, we had to make beat everyone in class once on their multiplication tables. My teacher said my math skills were so advanced that I had to go around the world twice to move my car once to make it fair for the rest of the class. Aside from me, there was one person that made it around the world four times in the school year so he got four prizes. I had 13 prizes that year from completing the race track. Those kids didn't stand a chance, I've always excelled in math. It was the one (and only one thing) I was always consistantly good at. Those 7 year old second graders should know better than to mess with me in math skills. And I only turned 14 that year.

[semmie'ssister]

I'm vertically challanged.......'short' for those of you who don't like big words........5' 3 1/2" to be exact. and while I might be absent minded at times, more so than not, I am not stupid. I granduated in the top of my high school class, always made the Dean's in college, graduating Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Acocunting, and a Masters Degree in Finance. I'd be just about done with my PhD, except that I put that on hold so that I can pursue my Certified Fraud Examiners certification, as well as some other training.

my previous boss is 5' 4" and he's a brilliant man! He's got a BA in Accounting, he's a Certified Public Accountant, as well as many other certifications that I can't think of off the top of my head.......

and come to think of it, a good portion of my peers (in my MOS) aren't tall at all. Of the 65 employees in our field, we hold a combined total of 85 degrees, 81 certifications (i.e., CPA, CGAP...).

There's a guy in my field who's around 6' 4", not real sure how tall he is, but he towers over us. Now, he's got his BA, but he wasn't top of his class or anything. And, when it came time for him to test for his certifications....well, it took him 3 attempts at one test before he passed it. so if tall people are so much smarter, why did it take him three times to pass the test, when it took another guy, who's about my height, one time to pass?

So, I truely don't beleive that taller people are smarter. Perhaps there is a correlation between how well children learn to how well their feed, particularly when they're young and in need of certain nutrients to develope their brain and learning mechanisms, but that's it. And if those children who are generally better feed grow up to be taller than those who come from struggling families, well, then okay, we've got some short people in our society, but that doesn't mean tall people are smarter than short people.

:tongue:

[Timothy Leary]

Heh, see, I knew I was smarter than all y'all

[Lili]

FIRST OF ALL...
actually, it's not the women tend to be smarter than men, it's that they tend to be more disciplined. On the average, men will score higher across the board in almost any subject than women, especially in areas of critical thinking. However women tend to be way more disciplined thus things such as school GPA's and such would tend to suggest that overall they're slightly smarter when in fact this isn't really the case. I don't think either sex is smarter than the other. Could you please cite some studies that show that women score lower in almost every subject?

[docjam]

but how well would you do on an IQ test big sister? There's a difference between being smart and being knowledgable. Being knowledgeable means you know a lot about a lot of things but that doesn't mean a hill of beans in this world. Bring smart means you know how to use that knowledge.

Take a look at my some of my professors for example. There's a few of them who are knowledgeable beyond human comprehension, in particular I think of my nutrition professor. He knows his nutrition. He was born in Egypt and came to this country, then learned our language before going to school and then went on and got his masters, doctorate and so on...

He's got certifications and recognizations up to yin-yang(that's somewhere in China i think) but the truth of the matter is, he's about as smart as the plaster on my wall. People go through life getting their degrees and certifications in everything and most of the time it means nothing.

Now I know you personally so I can say this isn't the particular case with you, but I know of many people who have degree and plaques and all these other accomplishments and aren't any smarter than the lint in my belly-button (which actually has an IQ of 32, not bad for belly-button lint huh).

When it comes to problem solving and actually using the mind in critical analysis types of things, there's a higher correlation between that and taller people, just the same if you are left-handed you're typically better at math for some reason, it's the way the mind works. That's not to say there's right handed people that aren't good at math, but in general math comes easier to the southpaws.

Not only that, but if I recall when we were younger and you played video games, I remember every time you tried to get Mario to jump, you jumped with the controller. You would literally jump out of your seat and lift the controller up, somehow thinking it would magically make Mario jump higher or more accurately. Now tell me honestly, how smart is that?

On the contrary, if you look at me, I got a 4.0 in high school and college both. If you take my 1.4 in high school and my 2.7 in college that comes out to an even 4.0 so as you see, I am smart and good at math, this is because I am 6'8'' and I am left-handed. What more could there be.

Not only that, but I've now been in college five years and have two more to go. So as you see, it is clear I am the smartest in the family. And you...trying to get Mario to jump higher by throwing the controller higher, thought you were smart...geesh.

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[Timothy Leary]

I don't think anyone in this thread is particularly smart, given that none of them seem to realise how much better and more efficient it is to use the metric system for weights and measures.

I'm 188cm, for anyone smart enough to work that out... :wink:

Really, with computers, it doesn't make a difference. They do all the conversions automatically. There is no financial incentive to change.

[semmie'ssister]

but how well would you do on an IQ test big sister? There's a difference between being smart and being knowledgable. Being knowledgeable means you know a lot about a lot of things but that doesn't mean a hill of beans in this world. Bring smart means you know how to use that knowledge.

Take a look at my some of my professors for example. There's a few of them who are knowledgeable beyond human comprehension, in particular I think of my nutrition professor. He knows his nutrition. He was born in Egypt and came to this country, then learned our language before going to school and then went on and got his masters, doctorate and so on...

He's got certifications and recognizations up to yin-yang(that's somewhere in China i think) but the truth of the matter is, he's about as smart as the plaster on my wall. People go through life getting their degrees and certifications in everything and most of the time it means nothing.

Now I know you personally so I can say this isn't the particular case with you, but I know of many people who have degree and plaques and all these other accomplishments and aren't any smarter than the lint in my belly-button (which actually has an IQ of 32, not bad for belly-button lint huh).

When it comes to problem solving and actually using the mind in critical analysis types of things, there's a higher correlation between that and taller people, just the same if you are left-handed you're typically better at math for some reason, it's the way the mind works. That's not to say there's right handed people that aren't good at math, but in general math comes easier to the southpaws.

Not only that, but if I recall when we were younger and you played video games, I remember every time you tried to get Mario to jump, you jumped with the controller. You would literally jump out of your seat and lift the controller up, somehow thinking it would magically make Mario jump higher or more accurately. Now tell me honestly, how smart is that?

On the contrary, if you look at me, I got a 4.0 in high school and college both. If you take my 1.4 in high school and my 2.7 in college that comes out to an even 4.0 so as you see, I am smart and good at math, this is because I am 6'8'' and I am left-handed. What more could there be.

Not only that, but I've now been in college five years and have two more to go. So as you see, it is clear I am the smartest in the family. And you...trying to get Mario to jump higher by throwing the controller higher, thought you were smart...geesh.

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I think I'd do pretty darn good on an IQ test.

hmm, no, that wasn't me with the mario and teh controller.....that was miriam. She was funny to watch when she played. :rofl: I never got to play as much as the rest of you.

I used to be left handed.....but then I got a teacher who would whack:whack: my hand with a ruler when I tried to use my left hand.

I was always (and still am) good at math, and working with numbers.

I just cannot (and will not ever) agree with the generalization that tall people are smarter than short people.

[docjam]

I think I'd do pretty darn good on an IQ test.

better than me though? I'm taller after all...

hmm, no, that wasn't me with the mario and teh controller.....that was miriam.

no maam, I distinctly remember you doing that. In fact, you were home visiting while you were in the service even and I remember you doing that with the controllers and mario died and you yelled at colton cuz he was distracting you, poor little guy.


I never got to play as much as the rest of you
exactly, cuz I was the smart one that played through all the levels, figuring them out and being the one to out smart the games. Once I figured out how everything was done, that's when the rest of you played it. Even then, you guys were always asking me how to beat a level or do something.

I used to be left-handed.....

and I used to be short. What's the point?

but then I got a teacher who would whack :whack: my hand with a ruler...
it doesn't count when you're using your left hand to hold up the boy against the locker and then using your right hand to beat him. You deserved that whacking cooter.

I was always (and still am) good at math, and worknig with numbers.

remember last time you were here and I asked you what the square root of three squared was? Do you also remember that when I asked you that you said something like 64? It wasn't even close. It didn't even have anything to do with the number three.

I just cannot (and will not ever) agree with the generalization that tall people are smarter than short people.

it's ok cooter. I know it's hard to lose to your younger brother and not be as smart as him. Oh by the way, you lost that bet we had, you owe me twenty dollars

[TuckEverlasting]

Not only that, but if I recall when we were younger and you played video games, I remember every time you tried to get Mario to jump, you jumped with the controller. You would literally jump out of your seat and lift the controller up, somehow thinking it would magically make Mario jump higher or more accurately.

:rofl: It is so hilarious when people do that. :lol:

[Darth Executor]

I love all the short people apologists coming out to defend their intelligence. You guys just aren't as smart as me or Tuck. Give it up.

[TuckEverlasting]

I love all the short people apologists coming out to defend their intelligence. You guys just aren't as smart as me or Tuck. Give it up.
:lmbo: Time for a new poll. :darklaugh:

[norwegen]

I love all the short people apologists coming out to defend their intelligence. You guys just aren't as smart as me or Tuck. Give it up.That should be ". . .as smart as Tuck or I."

[Smokering]

When I was four foot two, I wasn't as smart as I am now at five foot eight.

Case dismissed.

*Smokering bows and exits*

[docjam]

...You guys just aren't as smart as me or Tuck. Give it up.

That should be ". . .as smart as Tuck or I."


Norwegen's got a valid point.

Not only that, but I stand 6'8''. Tuck and yourself are mere shadows in the realm of my intelligence

[Sparko]

You tall people are Stooooopid....

from the article:


And how tall are the researchers?

They are both about 5 feet 8 inches tall.



:hehe:

[semmie'ssister]

better than me though? I'm taller after all...



no maam, I distinctly remember you doing that. In fact, you were home visiting while you were in the service even and I remember you doing that with the controllers and mario died and you yelled at colton cuz he was distracting you, poor little guy.

uh, no. if I moved or jerked or whatever, it was to try to see teh tv around everyone that was in my way distracting me and getting in my way so I couldn't see what I was doing.

exactly, cuz I was the smart one that played through all the levels, figuring them out and being the one to out smart the games. Once I figured out how everything was done, that's when the rest of you played it. Even then, you guys were always asking me how to beat a level or do something.

exactly! you were always playing, and I was always NOT playing! which is why I didn't know how to play the game.

and I used to be short. What's the point?


it doesn't count when you're using your left hand to hold up the boy against the locker and then using your right hand to beat him. You deserved that whacking cooter.

sure it does! :hehe: seriously, I still do a lot of things with my left hand, as well as my right. I can even knit and crochet left handed! :smug: can you?



remember last time you were here and I asked you what the square root of three squared was? Do you also remember that when I asked you that you said something like 64? It wasn't even close. It didn't even have anything to do with the number three.


nope, don't remember.....but then I suffer from memory loss. perhaps I switched teh numbers in my head, :shrug: I do that a lot. switching number and letters, who knows.....I don't remember.


it's ok cooter. I know it's hard to lose to your younger brother and not be as smart as him. Oh by the way, you lost that bet we had, you owe me twenty dollars


and I don't know anything about a bet, so I doubt I owe you $20, but if you want it, you can come and get it.