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I wonder what would have happened if the story was about a variety of
women of extremes in height and all sorts of body types--do you think
the guys would have picked the stereotypical petite packages?? 

They were asking for an immediate impressions based primarily on
physical characteristics and got what they asked for in the report.

Adrienne

In <MPG.d2e66c828b770df989760@nntp.ix.netcom.com> bigus@ix.netcom.com
(Bigus) writes: 
>
>In article <32C4B50A.4D40@herald.infi.net>, fmartin@herald.infi.net 
>says...
>> Frank Calderon wrote:  
>> 
>> As someone who's 5'9"  (OK, OK, I'm actually 5' 8-1/2") I thought
I'd throw in 
>> this little bit o' info:  
>> 
>> 20/20 (on ABC) had a story about short men and their dating problems
this 
>> Friday night (think their producers might be reading some of these
posts?).  
>> And guess what they found?  Most women prefer tall men (surprise,
surprise)!  
>> 
>> They had a group of men in a room, with one short man in the middle,
and a 
>> group of women in another room looking through a two-way mirror at
the men.  
>> The women were asked which men they would date.  None picked the
short 
>> guy--even after they were told the short guy was an M.D. who had
written a 
>> successful book, yatta, yatta.  
>> 
>> They did this several times with different guys (including different
short 
>> guys) and different women.  In one particular case, they were told
the short 
>> guy (who happened to be 5 feet tall this time) was a venture
capitalist who 
>> became a millionaire at 25--and they STILL wouldn't go out with him!
 
>> 
>> Unbelievably shallow, I think...
>> 
>
>I just watched the same report. They actualy used tall women (they
said 
>so), so what did you expect. If they had some short women selecting
among 
>tall men you would see some shallowness of a different variety. It
seems 
>like this report and so much of the other talk I have heard on this 
>subject seems to focus on how tall people feel about short people. It 
>seems they don't think the feelings of short people about short people

>are significant.
>
>If they had switched because he was a doctor or a millionare, would
this 
>not also be very shallow?
>
>John