Looks like there’s some lying going on, lol

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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

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      I mean, if it’s 11.75 inches, then you should be rounding up anyways…

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

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      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.

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

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          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

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

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      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.

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    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?

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      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.

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    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.

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        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?

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

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    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.

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    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.

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      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

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    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.