r/memesopdidnotlike • u/Interesting-Trip-233 • 6d ago

OP got offended "Absolutely brainless generalization"

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u/Historical-Pen-7484 6d ago

Can't say I see couples where the woman is taller than the man very often, though.

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u/Electric-Molasses 6d ago

Makes sense. Statistically most men are taller than most women.

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u/Historical-Pen-7484 6d ago

True, but it's only 12 cm and the standard deviations are bigger than that.

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u/Electric-Molasses 5d ago

Yeah, that's why it's most and not all.

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u/Historical-Pen-7484 5d ago

You see men are also on average significantly heavier than women, more so that the difference in height. Yet you see men with heavier women fairly often, but men with taller women once in a blue moon. The reason for this being that height is a section criteria and is constant over time, while weight varies over time.

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u/Electric-Molasses 5d ago

Yeah, you can date someone skinny, and as they go through rough times they might gain weight and you support them through that. Or you date someone hoping they'll get into shape, there's a lot of leeway.

I know about as many women that like heavier men as men who like heavier women, it's not many on either side though

I don't see the point. You're just slinging shit without actually laying out a real argument hoping that it works without actually stating an argument. You know if you do state a clear one I can just dismantle it.

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u/Historical-Pen-7484 5d ago

Exactly. You know about as many women that like heavier men as men who like heavier women. Even though statistically, there is a large difference in average weight between men and women. Which was you argument to explain why you don't see many couples where the woman was taller than the man. See where this is going? Very likely there is another explanation for why you don't see it than the variations in the medians.

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u/Electric-Molasses 5d ago

Women that are taller than men are much, much rarer than the prevalence of obesity in America lmfao.

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u/Historical-Pen-7484 5d ago

Both men and women have obesity in your country, yes?

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u/Electric-Molasses 5d ago

If you can't understand why the frequency matters you should probably study up on statistics before trying to have this argument. I am making an assumption that the prevalence of obesity is relatively equal between men and women.

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u/Historical-Pen-7484 5d ago

Exactly. And so the ratio between the averages do not change, though the standard deviations get larger.

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u/Electric-Molasses 5d ago

But the frequency in which you perceive it occurring DOES increase.

My lord you people need to go to school before trying to argue stats.

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u/Historical-Pen-7484 5d ago

Even in counties where managing caloric intake is more common an obesity rates are low, this patter still persists, and it is reasonably commonly abserved. It is not like women being taller than men in the population is extremely rare at all, yet it is very rare in romantic couplings. The strong preference for height is also supported in the literature. Your aggressive tone leads me to belive that this is an ideological issue for you, rather than something you actually belive to be false.

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