>
> I have another idea on why average women could be shorter than men. Even
> though I suspect that most of it exagerrated by perception. Since we are so
> used to women-midgets book illustrations and movie images, we could as
> well see it when it's not even there, because "it's supposed to be that
> way".
This is certainly true. In psychology experiments, subjects (American
college students) have been shown
pictures of a woman or a man standing next to a doorway or other reference
object and asked to guess the person's height. People estimate women to be
shorter than men who are actually the same height. This holds true even when
the people are *told* that a set of photographs is "matched" for height, i.e.
for each picture of a woman in the set there is a picture of a man of exactly
the same height. Women also tend to do this as much as men.
--Carrie
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