TIL: Why women (still ?) prefer tall men

[timelets]

... short Norwegian men aged 40-59 at risk between 1963 and 1979 were much more likely to die than tall men. Indeed, the risk of mortality for men with heights of 165 cm (65.0 inches) was on average 71 percent greater than that of men who measure 182.5 cm (71.9 inches).

-- Robert W. Fogel. Nobel Prize Lecture. 1993.

Comments

[ygam]

Here height is probably a proxy for general health.

[timelets]

General health used to be a function of nutrition, which in turn was a function of income.
I should've posted a link to Fogel's lecture. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1993/fogel-lecture.html