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Absolutely, and my claim is that height gets overrepresented in studies on attraction because it's so easy to measure. This leads to borderline-absurd statements like:

> heterosexual womens' unspoken but critically important criteria in mate selection is height.

In the real world, attraction is significantly more complex than this implies. It's obvious (to anyone who has observed attraction, rather than just read a study about it) that many factors are involved, most are hard to quantify, and these will underrepresented in studies and data.




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