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For Americans who have the height mode of their brain stuck in "Freedom Units":
Anna Smrek is roughly 6' 9"
'Short King' is roughly 5' 3"
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For data nerds:
Going by total data for the whole globe, all people:
https://www.gigacalculator.com/calculators/height-percentile-calculator.php
Anna is ... off the charts, one of if not the actual tallest adult women in the world, literally breaks the calculator.
Anna would be at... the 99.9(8/9)% percentile of men by height, which means that if you use 8.2 billion as a world population, there are at most approximately 1.6 million men as tall or taller than her.
EDIT: I forgor to divide by two, women vs men, so uh, 800k.
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'Short King' is under the 1st percentile of men (0.77), he is shorter than 99.3%+ of adult men.
'Short King' would be at about the 25th percentile of women by height, which means he is actually still as tall or taller than 25% of women, approximately 2 billion.
EDIT: I did the same forgor /2, so, 1 billion, thanks to FundMECFSResearch for catching my error!
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Average global male height ~= 178 cm / 5' 10"
Average global female height ~= 165 cm / 5' 5"
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Possibly also relevant:
https://www.gotquestions.org/how-tall-was-Goliath.html
If you use a more reasonable and realistic measurement of cubits and spans, and go with the Septuagint version of the Old Testament/Torah...
Goliath, the mythical warrior felled by David and his sling, whose name is now just a common euphemism for 'giant'...
Yeah he was only about 6' 6", or about 198 cm.
So...Anna could probably roughly rest her nose on the top of Goliath's head, without bending her neck (or at least not much).
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Another fun addendum, for I guess dating data nerds?:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886913000020
(If someone can find a more recent study that specifically looks into this, I'd appreciate it!)
Broadly speaking, women prefer taller men more strongly than men prefer shorter women, by a factor of roughly 2.625x.
Women prefer, on average, a larger height difference between themselves and their partner (i.e. males being much taller than themselves) than men do. This effect is even more pronounced when examining satisfaction with actual partner height: women are most satisfied when their partner was 21 cm taller, whereas men are most satisfied when they were 8 cm taller than their partner.
In Freedom Units, thats roughly women being most satisfied with a man 8 inches taller than them, men being most satisfied with a woman about 3 inches shorter than them.
This means a 5' 10" average guy will tend to be well satisfied with a 5' 7" woman's height, but she will tend to not be well satisfied with the man's height, herself on average, ideally, looking for a 6' 3" man.
Even if it was a 5' 10" man and an [EDIT: Whoops, too many numbers, too fast, this would actually be a somewhat shorter than] average 5' 3" woman, she'd still tend to ideally prefer a 5' 11" man, on average.
So, to more accurately assess 'Short King's realistic dating pool, we actually need to find women who are 8 inches shorter than him.
And that works out to women 4' 7" or shorter.
Which is the 0.02 percentile... meaning that 'Short King's realistic dating pool is at worst, just as small as the number of men who are as tall or taller than Anna.
Or, perhaps both Anna and Short King need to find partners who simply accept them and are satisfied by them via being uncommonly partner-height indifferent.
Good luck to both of them!
Youβre doing gods work. I googled the tallest woman alive, and she is 7 foot tall almost exactly. So this girl really is close.
Autism is my superpower rofl.
Also good lord, 7 foot tall woman, sheesh.
I can only hope she doesn't have some kind of debilitating form of gigantism, I know a lot the all time world record holders for height had all kinds of horrendous health problems and died fairly young.
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HER DAD'S TALLER. HOLY SHIT.
genetics, right? at least one of her parents had to be similarly tall.
I once knew a married couple with the husband at 6'8" and the wife at 4'10". For years, we all joked about them having kids, and either would quip "logistics". I was part of the family gathering during the birth of their first child, and a caesarian was essential. π
You might be surprised! My uncle is 170 cm tall, his wife about 165, and two of their sons are about 170. Their third son is nearly 195 cm. Yes, he's their biological child - we've checked!
Both my aunt and uncle had tall fathers and very short mothers. Height is polygenic (multiple genes are responsible), so my cousin won the height allele lottery and inherited a higher proportion of the height increasing traits both parents carried, making him a height outlier.
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He played 7 seasons in the NBA, was kinda a journeyman playing backup center for a bunch of different teams.
Please donβt give me new fetishes
do you know how hard it is to have a fetish for women being bigger and taller than you, when you are over 6 and a half feet tall?
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GOOD thing she isn't Trans! OTHERWISE she would have an Unfair Advantage! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
Poor girl. I've never met a super tall girl that liked being tall. In my teens I worked Nordstrom women's shoes. That is one of the only places with a stock of very large sizes.
Super tall women are an involuntary circus act everywhere they go. I don't envy that. All I have met have a certain sadness in their eyes. I'm sure there are exceptions, but I see sad eyes here.
Can confirm. Wife is 6 feet tall and wishes she was half a foot shorter (in height before any comedians jump in) but we visited Bergen in Norway recently and she was so delighted that she could buy clothes off the rack and pretty shoes.
My aunt is fairly tall (about 1.9 meters) and she told me she was so thankful for men in drag becoming a thing in the zeitgeist, as she could finally find shoes and clothes her size with ease.
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Because you met us while we were buying shoes.
Which is depressing, yes. But other than shoes being sad, my depression and thousand yard stare are unrelated to my height.
But her height is actually useful. She's a starter in a sport in which height is a useful physical trait, which helped her with university admissions with a scholarship. She's apparently a professional who has been on the roster of some overseas teams, and plays for her national team (Canada).
Plus growing up in a family with tall people might make it easier to deal with. Her dad is former NBA player Mike Smrek and presumably has a social circle of very tall people and maybe even their very tall children.
So I don't doubt that a lot of tall women actively dislike their own height. But this particular woman probably has reason to like being tall.
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Holy cow. I thought this comment section would be filled with light hearted jokes. Some of yall need get your chronically online asses outside.
The is the most reddit esque comment section I've seen on lemmy and it's gross
Lemmy is pretty great compared to reddit so long as the topics stay away from anything to do with feminism or women's rights. Otherwise it starts to feel like the reddit cesspit is leaking, and it's depressing. Anyone remember the few days when "the bear" discussion took over the fediverse? Those were dark times. Or any time someone even mentions the word "mansplaining", even if it's satirical.
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There are plenty of reasonable comments. Most have more upvotes than the sexualizing ones. That said, look closely at what she is wearing in the pic. If she put shorts on, the sides of that thing would still be above the shorts. The image was designed to have sexual appeal. She is showing more skin than most people have. So of course some people are going to go in that direction. Men in general haven't evolved enough not to.
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But it's paramount that we ban the 5'5" trans girl who has testosterone lower than cis girls from playing volleyball because....reasons.
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She's 3 inches taller than me.
Step on me, giant mommy π₯Ί
Thatβs cool but I feel like it would be a nightmare being that tall.
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i welcome death by snu snu
Damn, for someone 80 times taller he looks so small.. he must be very far away
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She's more than half leg.
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