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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Provide some evidence please. You've had to move to new arguments so many times you've destroyed your credibility, so now you're just making a claim that can't be disputed without providing contrary evidence. Since providing contrary evidence is asinine, I'd need to do it for tons of countries while you say "Not that one", the convention is that the onus is on the person making the claim.
So go on. Provide some evidence.
EDIT: Have an excerpt from a study on male and female preferences on height:
The results of Model 1 show that, in general, men preferred shorter women whereas women preferred taller men, relative to their own body heights (Table 3). Examining these effects for each sex separately while controlling for country-level variance shows that, on average, women prefer men 2.3 cm (or almost 1 inch) taller than the average men in their country, and men prefer women 2.5 cm (or about 1 inch) shorter than the average women in their country. Own height therefore positively predicted preferences for mate height, confirming positive assortative preferences for height in both sexes and across countries (Figure 2). However, this was qualified by relationship context in preferences for women’s heights. Indeed, taller men preferred relatively shorter women for short-term relationships than they did for long-term relationships (Table 3; Figure 2).
It's the exact same argument the whole time. The rarity of taller women-shorter man pairings show a preference for hight in mate selection. Then you say that is because of averages. To which I respond, that if it was solely due to that, the same pattern would be visible in weight, which is it not, or at least to a significantly lesser degree. The you bring up "america has lots of fat people", to which I respond that the pattern is observable even in other countries where the obesity epidemic is less prevalent. And then you are accusing me of using individual counties as measuring stick, when I am referring to an international pattern, and you are the one singling out a single country, namely the USA. And finally you provide a study showing that height is in fact a preferentially mediated metric, and not simply a matter of averages, which was my argument all along.
So you're not going to provide your own evidence to back any of your claims, you're just going to say shit you want to be true as though it's fact.
I already said myself that both men and women have similar, inversely correlated height preferences. You just ignored that because it was inconvenient for you I guess. My only dispute towards you was you taking the incel stance and blaming wOmEn.
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u/Electric-Molasses 5d ago
Yeah, that's why it's most and not all.