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Looks like there's some lying going on, lol

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[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 57 points 2 months ago

I am definitely 5'11" and 3/4" and I definitely don't report it as 5'11" no one is going to pull out a measuring tape on me.

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 14 points 2 months ago

im 5'11" and some change and would just say six if people asked and my brother got so mad when he found our I was shy of six as he thought I was taller. I like dude. im not memorizing whatever fraction is after five eleven. I guess I could say 5 eleven instead but that same laziness that does not want to remember some fraction also prefers to answer with one word.

[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

Oddly, i had the same argument with my brother in law.

I'm 6'2", but I always say I'm around 6'1" or 6'2", so I don't blow up any 5'11"s cover. My BL who is very clearly 3-4" shorter than me tried to convince me that I'm 6'4", because he is exactly 6 foot. He got super upset, like red in the face, temper tantrum.

[-] just_ducky_in_NH@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

He isn’t named Donald, is he?

[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Nah, he was a Jamie. Thankfully no longer part of the fam.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 5 points 2 months ago

im 5'10.5. i tell people im 5'10 cuz who the fuck cares. hell, it prolly wont be long til im 5'9

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, there’s that too. At this point I’m old enough that only my kids report my former height and I try to stay out of it. I’m pretty sure I’m noticeably shorter. It doesn’t help that I’ve lost core muscle and have correspondingly worse posture so appear shorter

[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 months ago

Hey this guy is a midget lmao

[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 15 points 2 months ago
[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

I mean, if it's 11.75 inches, then you should be rounding up anyways...

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

6'1" is also lower than the other side of the curve, which suggests people just like to round up or down to 6'.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

It actually makes a lot of sense, to me anyway, why the left portion would be more heavily weighted.

6’-0” and up is pretty rare as far as the world goes. 6’-5” is kinda the ceiling for humans barring some exceptions and there are plenty of reasons to stop growing on the way to it while there isn’t really any way to grow bigger.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

6'6" checking in. Not often I see someone taller than me :-)

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

I worked with a fella who was 6’8” or more. He was like looking at a natural wonder. Very sweet dude though.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I bet, but even I think that and I’m much shorter. Most of my life I’ve phrased it as I’m taller than average but not tall. But people seem to be shrinking faster than I am: it really seems like I’m taller than more and more people as time goes on

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I bet 6'1" is accurate, if the mean of the curve was where it's supposed to be instead of at 5'10"

[-] bradboimler@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

If I had that one inch I'd own it

[-] lime@feddit.nu 21 points 2 months ago

i wonder if this rounding also exists in metric countries, i could see people writing 190cm if they're 189.

[-] lemming@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I honestly don't know how tall I am. I know I'm taller than last time I was seriously measured, but I don't know by how much and I don't care. But everyone shrinks during the day anyway. Measuring height to precise centimeters has just a little more sense than weighing someone with precision of ⅒ of kilogram. I have basically no chance but to estimate and possibly round.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Definitely not me. I'm 190cm with shoes I swear!

[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 months ago

'Hmmm' material

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

I'm 5'11" without shoes and I can't imagine why anyone would lie about that lol like why wouldn't you just say your 6' tall at that point if you're lying anyway?

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I'm 5'11"and I like to say "I'm 6' when I wear my heelys." People aren't ready for it. They especially aren't ready when I actually heely away.

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Just using this data to show how stupidly wealth is currently distributed in the country assuming 5'11" or 1.8 meters average if we converted this into 2022 wealth values with average income of 61,136, top 1% as 785,968 (12.9x), and 0.1% 2.8 million (458x) the top 1% height would be 23.22 meters and 0.1% would be 824.4 meters tall.

[-] tehfishman@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

I'm pretty high and I can't make an ounce of sense of what you're on about

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Naturally occurring normal numeric distributions will tend towards a bell shape, or curve, as you acquire observations. Artificial distributions like income will follow a different curve that is sometimes difficult to visualize especially when the differences are measured in millions or billions. It's easier to visualize the differences in artificial distributions if you use a natural distribution as a familiar basis.

Tl;Dr Do you think Paul Bunyan and Paul Blart are related?

[-] tehfishman@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Only if they both know who took Karl

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

This is a nicely symmetric bell curve but a similar wealth distribution graph will show a miles long tail

[-] orl0pl@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I don't measure myself in steps

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

As someone closer to 6'1" usually, I just go with 6' because it's easier. It's funny that both ends of 6' seem to just report 6'. The shorter side seems more likely to do this, obviously, but I think there's a lot of people like me who just choose the slightly easier option too. I'd be curious if you got the same anomaly if multiple foot markers were within the majority of the normal distribution.

[-] velxundussa@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

As weird as it seems, it may partly be external pressure.

My precise height is 5'11 and a half.

Each times it comes up in conversation, I tend to say I am 5'11, but people close to me insist I am 6'.

I feel like nobody would insist if I was 5'10 and a half that I am 5'11, it’s just the magic 6' number that make people weird.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 2 months ago

I only ever get measured without shoes on at the doctor these days. I've been 6'6'' since I was 16 or so. My shoes would add probably another inch.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I wonder if that’s what happened to me ….. I’ve been 6’2” or 6’2.5” for my entire adult life, but there was at least one time the doctors office measured me at 6’3”, maybe I had shoes on. I have to admit to using that some of the time even though it’s an outlying data point

Part of it is that my ex was exactly a foot shorter. At some point she started calling herself 5’3” so I had to continue being a foot taller than that

[-] Marthirial@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

So most men are 5-9 and 5-11 adjusted for lying.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Shit, I used to be a cunt hair under 6 foot (so little below it that just shifting posture could take it over by a quarter inch, or under by the same).

Now, I'm a cunt hair over 5 10. Spine issues for the lose?

But some of my records still show me at 6 even, and that's what I tend to put down when I'm not thinking about it. Years of habit.

[-] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

6'7 💪😎💪

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