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Tall Men More Likely to Have Higher Education Than Short Men

http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/c...stract/dyl011v1

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Height at age 18 years is a strong predictor of attained education later in life: cohort study of over 950 000 Swedish men Abstract Background: Adult body height has been related to socioeconomic position in cross-sectional studies. Intelligence, shared family factors, and non-familial circumstances may contribute to associations between height and attained education, but their relative importance has been difficult to resolve. Methods: A nation-wide record-linkage cohort study of over 950 000 Swedish men born 1950-75 followed with respect to attained education for up to 27 years after measurement of height at age 18 (baseline). The association between height and attained education in later life was investigated by logistic regression modelling with adjustment for age, geography, parental socioeconomic position, and cognitive ability. Shared family factors were accounted for in analyses of full-brother-pairs using conditional logistic regression. Results: The odds ratio (OR) for attaining higher education 7-27 years after baseline was 1.10 [95% confidence interval (95% CI) 1.09-1.10] in fully adjusted models per 5 cm increase in height. Men taller than 194 cm were two to three times more likely to obtain a higher education as compared with men shorter than 165 cm. The association remained within brother-pairs, OR 1.08 (95% CI 1.07-1.10), suggesting that non-familial factors contribute to the association between height and education attainment. A significant interaction (P < 0.0001) was found between year of birth, height, and attained education, showing slightly weaker associations among later birth cohorts. Conclusions: The strong positive association between height and educational achievement remaining after adjustment for year of birth, parental socioeconomic position, other shared family factors, and cognitive ability may reflect educational discrimination based on height although residual confounding cannot be ruled out.

That's weird.

Lenght discrimination might be the new issue?!

Maybe smaller guys just can't measure up?

Perhaps they were short-changed in school?

Or did their short-comings lead to lower grades?

Maybe they were short with their teachers when spoken to?

I personally believe that this theory will fall far short of the facts, and shortly, the whole thing will stand revealed to be pure folly.

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Originally posted by donnybrasco I personally believe that this theory will fall far short of the facts, and shortly, the whole thing will be revealed to be pure folly.

that's a tall order!

^^^Why, it's nothing short of the truth my friend!

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Originally posted by donnybrasco I personally believe that this theory will fall far short of the facts, and shortly, the whole thing will stand revealed to be pure folly.

That appears to be the long and short of it - a tall tale if I've ever heard one...

(God we're funny.)

^^^


Yes, we've made short work of this theory.




(...it never ends...)

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Originally posted by donnybrasco Yes, we've made short work of this theory.

Now, now. It may be short on facts, but that doesn't mean we should immediately go selling it short...

^^^ Well, given what I've read, it's a small wonder I disagree.

stop acting like a couple of wresting midgets

I fear this will have a long ending

^^^We shall call this; "Mini-Thread"...and hope that good things do indeed come in small packages.

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