by Jim Rose in discrimination, industrial organisation, labour economics, movies, survivor principle Tags: competition as a discovery procedure, height discrimination, Hollywood economics, market selection, statistical discrimination, The meaning of competition

Spare me the conspiracy theories. When an actor or actress walks into a scene, the first impression of the audience is not supposed to be about how tall they are or how they differ in height from those already on the stage or film set.

This casting decision can be deliberate or simply that actors who do not differ as much in height seem to work well together and have more successful careers because of better rapport.