Taller people are smarter: study - Yahoo! News

B.S.

This study has to be inconclusive. If the study was actually attempted at all using the scientific method is questionable as well. Why would taller people be more intelligent? I see no logic in that. Would you explain more, please?

While I am 6'3" this is a case of making too certain of an assumption based on inconclusive data. Here are my two objections to this conclusion:

1. They operationalize intelligence as higher paying jobs:

"As adults, taller individuals are more likely to select into higher paying occupations that require more advanced verbal and numerical skills and greater intelligence, for which they earn handsome returns,"

Therefore: higher pay = more cognitively demanding work = more intelligent individuals required to do said work. I fail to see this as conclusive evidence that more intelligent people are actually selected for these jobs.

2. They do claim that at an early age taller children perform better on cognitive tasks:

As early as age three -- before schooling has had a chance to play a role -- and throughout childhood, taller children perform significantly better on cognitive tests

The huge confound here being nutrition. Nutrition plays an integral role in development and has a profound effect on physical and mental abilites. So, if your parents feed you properly at an early age, you get a mind and bodyl jump-start on your peers. In the researchers' defense, I haven't read the actual article so it is possible that they have cautioned against these kind of assumptions, and the writer who summarized their results took the liberty of making them on his or her own..

Maybe. I do wonder sometimes if certain physical attributes might correlate to certain personality types. My grandfather is 6'5" and is a very intelligent, former VP on an insurance company.

The only correlation I can imagine between Intelligence, and height falls back to the old belief that smarter people have bigger heads. Taller people are naturally going to have bigger heads, on average, just to be proportionate to their bodies.

Of course few facts actually exist to make the big head = smart correlation either. In fact some think it is just a farce.

you're both wrong, it actually makes you verbose

crap

The most advanced skills taller people have over shorter people are reaching for things on the top shelf at the supermarket, or maybe bulling someone in the school yard. Its called intimidation. It works just as well in the work place as it dose in the school yard.

What dose proper nutrition at a early age have to to with someones genetic disposition? What kind of baloney are your trying to sell us? It is no basis for reasoning that taller people are smarter.

You are not socially accepted by vain corporate, ignorant, arrogant, bias, greedy America unless you are wealthier, prettier, better looking, taller, and more educated. All in that order. Not because you weren't breast feed as a baby. Because these are the rules, not he exception.

Don't you people at Princeton have any thing more productive to do, like how to fix our political mess, before we vanish from the face of the earth, at least you could become famous and save us another trillion dollars or more on the next war. This will save us some tax dollars so us dumb people could put food on our family and we won't have to go on welfare. I think that would be a smarter thing to do, don't you agree?