Another newsbit today that I'm not copying over...
Apparently according to a recent study, taller people are "smarter." Not only do they earn more money [I think that professional sports is to thank for at least part of the skewing??], but the taller subjects in the study tended to have "better" high paying jobs that require good thinking skills.
One reason researchers think is at play is that taller people tend to have had better nutrition and health care when they were children, and that good health and food when they were younger helped them develop their brains better. With high self esteem, the "tall people" were groomed for leadership roles, and probably were able to channel the positive feedback from others into challenging themselves academically.
Now as a short person, I'm a little disappointed with the findings naturally. While I was on the road to becoming a doctor [high paying status job], I didn't feel that was were I belonged- and didn't want to spend any more of my life in a lab 
! Also I wonder if ethnic background should be taken into account- my chinese-canadian family/friend circle is quite academically supportive and influential in all our life choices. I know quite a few not so tall people with good paying jobs here in Vancouver, where I wonder if the same results would have happened if the study was done again.
Oh, and don't get me started on the fact that the study's reasearchers just happen to be taller than average.
Link to study pdf from yahoo: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12466.pdf
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