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Re: BEING SHORT

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From: Robert Kutschke
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 00:00
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In article <5806ev$ma9@boursy.news.erols.com>, Jim <jtitus@erols.com> writes:
|> kutschke@fnpspa.fnal.gov (Robert Kutschke) wrote:
|> >
|> >There were 18 matches. 
|> >
|> >Of these, 14 specified a minimum height of 5'7'' or more.
|> >           1 specified a minimum height of 5'6''
|> >           3 specified no minimum height
|> >
|> >Just for kicks, I released the requirements of non-smoker, no kids and the
|> >stats became:
|> >
|> >          33 specified a minimum height of 5'7'' or more
|> >           3 specified a minimum height of 5'5'' or 5'6''
|> >           4 specified no minimum height
|> 
|> Just to complete the picture, could you tell us what the height 
|> distributions were of the women of the varying categories?  Were the women 
|> basically saying "my height or taller" or were they requiring the man to 
|> be some minimum number of inches taller.  (Another post suggested that men 
|> are 4-5" taller on average). 
I did not pay close attention to this - see below.   My guess is that
at most a quarter to a third were looking for someone significantly higher
than themselves.

|> How many of these women would you have been 
|> interested in anyway?  
I haven't a clue - I just scanned the heights.  I simply did not
believe it when someone said that nearly every message mentioned
a minmum height; so I thought that I would see for myself.   

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From: kutschke@fnpspa.fnal.gov (Robert Kutschke)
Subject: Re: BEING SHORT
Date: 1996/12/04
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