Fun fact on height: I’m almost exactly 5′11.5“, and my wife is the one who pushes me to claim I’m 6′0” instead of 5′11“ (not for dating, we’re monogamous, just in life). She’s 5′10”, so that extra half inch is very clearly visible to her when standing next to me.
I’m curious if we know, is there a 180cm effect? Does the rest of the world get away with being a whole inch shorter without feeling the need to lie?
I’m curious if we know, is there a 180cm effect? Does the rest of the world get away with being a whole inch shorter without feeling the need to lie?
In my experience, this is correct. There’s a saying in my country, roughly: ‘a real man begins at 180cm’ expressed with varying levels of tongue-in-cheeckness. See also this comment from a hungarian. So, I’d say it’s one of the many advantages of the metric system.
Fun fact on height: I’m almost exactly 5′11.5“, and my wife is the one who pushes me to claim I’m 6′0” instead of 5′11“ (not for dating, we’re monogamous, just in life). She’s 5′10”, so that extra half inch is very clearly visible to her when standing next to me.
I’m curious if we know, is there a 180cm effect? Does the rest of the world get away with being a whole inch shorter without feeling the need to lie?
In my experience, this is correct. There’s a saying in my country, roughly: ‘a real man begins at 180cm’ expressed with varying levels of tongue-in-cheeckness. See also this comment from a hungarian.
So, I’d say it’s one of the many advantages of the metric system.