“In the U.S. population, about 14.5 percent of all men are six feet or over. Among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, that number is 58 percent.” The CEO phenomenon suggests that people favor tall people. And research has shown that in general tall people, well, have better lives.
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Research shows height may be predictor of financial success
By Rob Meyer for McCombs Today
Rob Meyer for McCombs Today
Published: Dec. 15, 2009
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Good job.. According to me you made some very good points in your post Its really informative..
It is very interesting how you combined reports and statistical data about how certain behavior correlates to tall people. I am 6,2 feet and I was really overjoyed to find out that 58% of fortune 500 CEO's are over 6 feet. Later when you wrote about money management I thought, just don't tell me the study shown that we are good with money, but the study shows that tall people are more risk takers when it comes to dealing with money. That's just like me. It makes me wonder if there is any actual free will on our part or our core behavior is pre-written in our genetic material? Anyhow I really enjoyed reading this article. It got me interested into, the term I first read today, "micro-level behavior". This is as close as you can get to Socrates famous "Know thyself" life philosophy