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Although neither of my parents were tall (mother 5'6", father 6'1"), I ended up so damn short due to Precious Puberty, and probably other things, like malnutrition, a lack of sleep growing up, not getting enough cardio during puberty, etc.

The unofficial formula for height growth is to take the middle of your parents height and add two inches if you're male and subtract two inches if you're female. Meaning a 6'2" father and a 5'6" mother with two kids growing up under healthy circumstances, should end up with a 6'0" son and 5'8" daughter, respectively. Ideally, you would want a tall mother and a tall father, with not that much range between the two, if you were to end up tall. Those who don't end up tall with a tall father, usually have their short mothers to blame.

Of course, parents only determine your potential height range, and those with taller parents have a larger potential height range they could end up in. Environment determines what your final height will be, and whether you will meet the expected height (average of your parents, +2" or -2" inches for gender), surpass it, or fall well below it. Nine to ten hours of sleep nightly, a diet healthy with plenty of vegetables and protein, and daily cardio, is what maximizes one's height potential. This is why student athletes end up so tall. Not because of the sports itself, but because of their lifestyle surrounding it, especially cardio-heavy sports like basketball and volleyball (much less so with football or wrestling, which relies more on muscle).

I'm an inch below what the height formula predicts, but six inches below what my height should've been (two tall grandfathers; both were 6'5" and I still ended up a shrimp).

Did you end up shorter or taller than your parents?

Part two! You can find the first part here.

You know... I used to have a friend back home named Jason. He was 5'9", a ginger dude with a scruffy orange-red beard, was chubby/portly, and literally worked as an HVAC worker. He was my age at the time, 28, and already owned a (nice) house. He was as blue collar and "working class" as you can get.

After meeting up at a social event one evening, he eventually ended up marrying a 5'8" redheaded Greek model with huge breasts and a curvy figure named Ana, someone who I also knew. And a few years later in present day, they have a 6-year old daughter. No offense to him, but he was pretty dumb, but also generally a happy-go-lucky and positive person.

I never understood what any woman could possibly see in him outside of personality, as he was short, chubby, and not-at-all attractive looking. I mean, he was/is a good man, but generally women don't care about that (where I'm from).

Usually, back home in the US, the only men I ever saw with wives or girlfriends were taller working-class men (6' and up), or successful short men (under 6', but earning over $70K). Rarely any exceptions, if any. But women on GAG like to claim otherwise. They say they like the short, working class male with the dad bod who's only 5'8" to 5'11".

So I want to really see... Which type of man really is the most popular?

(And yes, I know these aren't their real heights on the poll. They're not actually Clark Kent or Bruce Wayne being described here though.)

Is it true to say the taller the better or it depends on your height