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You now how short people get shat on everywhere, including in terms of getting choice selection of a mate and/or the mediocre entry level jobs at the chocolate factory (sorry Oompa Loompas, but I don’t see you getting promoted to District Manager any time soon). Well now a new study says there’s SCIENCE to back up the fact that, yes, tall people are better than you.

Height brings happiness, according to a study that also suggested tall people are more likely to have higher levels of income and education than smaller peers.

The study published in the journal Economics and Human Biology showed that tall people reported more enjoyment of life and less pain and sadness. Taller men also said they worry less though they are more likely to experience stress and anger than people of average height, said researchers led by Angus Deaton from Princeton University in New Jersey.

The findings support a hypothesis put forth in 2008 that tall people are more likely than shorter people to have reached their full cognitive potential, the researchers said. Poor nutrition and childhood diseases may stunt growth and limit mental development in some cases, they said.

“There is good evidence that cognitive and physical function develop together,” the researchers said. “It is this lack of full cognitive development that accounts for lower levels of education, and lower earnings in adulthood which, in turn, are almost entirely responsible for lower levels of life evaluation, and poorer emotional outcomes.”

The investigators compared the impact of height to other factors known to affect quality of life, including income. Each additional inch boosted happiness levels by the same amount as a 4.4 percent increase in family income for men and 3.8 percent pay raise for women.

[Bloomberg]

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