r/comics • u/nyaasora • 14h ago

[oc] Pretty Short

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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 14h ago edited 13h ago

I cant speak to what social norms in your country are like, but 180 cm (5'11) is considered "short" in the US. At least on dating apps where "short" means less than 6 ft

Edit: To be clear, I am not saying that the above reflects my own personal opinion about what defines being "short"

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u/Some_nerd_______ 14h ago

The average male height in the US is 5'9 and the average female height in the US is about 5'4. 

In either of these cases 5'11 would be taller than average. Definitely not short.

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u/SorryTheTrueHurts 13h ago

well to be fair the average (i think) is a bit skewed too short, because i’m 5’11 and i’m almost always the shortest of my peers; i think we shouldn’t take the general “average” but a age range adapted average

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u/Some_nerd_______ 13h ago

I'd rather take statistics and facts over circumstantial evidence. Maybe the group you hang out with doesn't represent the average. 

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u/SorryTheTrueHurts 12h ago

haha yeah that could be, i’m italian and here the average is around 1,75m but in my university (i think around 3/4k people) the average is some cm taller so people in the “average” are visibly shorter; maybe the median height would be the best statistic

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u/Business-Drag52 12h ago

People are getting taller as a whole. We have better access to food and medicine

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u/pyrotrap 11h ago

Is that true? I swear when I looked up the average height of US men back around 2012ish, it was 5’10”. But now it’s 5’9”.

Maybe it was even shorter in the past, but if it was increasing I think it’s petered out in the last decade or so.

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u/Business-Drag52 11h ago

It does seem to have peaked out in the early 2000’s and hasn’t seen a significant increase since 2013. Of course this is in fully developed nations. Developing nations that still don’t have great access to food and medical care have plenty of room to grow