Tall People Earn More

Posted by michael on Friday October 17, 2003 @06:15AM from the wait-till-we-can-gengineer-tallness dept.

ayahner writes "Tall people earn considerably more money throughout their lives than their shorter co-workers, with each inch adding about $789 a year in pay, according to a new study. If this is true, I should make a killing! At 6'7" I tower over other developers. It's mostly a distraction, as I can see over even the highest cubes and if I stand just in the right spot, I can receive satellite transmissions. Saves on the cell phone bill. I'm going to go ask for a raise right now, if I can figure out how to work the printer..."

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Re:Dubious Study by Illserve · 2003-10-17 06:27 · Score: 1, Flamebait

How does gibberish like this get modded up as insightful? The poster has no idea what the word statistics even means.
Re:obvious by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-17 07:35 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Duh! men are taller than women, men get payed more than women, it took a study to figure this out??
sheesh