So, what did we learn?

Her Height vs His Height

You can see that as the woman gets taller the height difference in their preference decreases. So it starts at a difference of 6.5 inches with women who are 5’1 wanting to date guys that are 5’7 and half or taller, but women who are 5’9, only prefer a minimum height 2 inches taller than them, at 5’11.

Males Height Determines Their Dating Pool

DUH. But, basically if you are man that is 5’5 and under, you should take your $24.99 dollars a month and light it on fire. Because you are more likely to attract a women when you are lighting money on fire than the bleak percentages of women that want to date you. It’s actually pretty grim until you’re a guy that is 5’10 or taller.

When I made this infographic earlier this week, I thought I was 5’7,I actually got measured today during a bio metric screening for work and it turns out I’m actually just OVER 5’7, which means I’m basically 5’8 with shoes. Right? RIGHT GUYS!? But for assumptions of this data let’s pretend I’m straight up 5’7. This means only 32% of the women said I match their minimum height criteria. So even though I am as tall or taller than %100 percent of the women in my dating pool (5’7 and below), only %32 percent said I was in THEIR dating pool. Think about that.

Which heights of women actually want to match with me?

You can see that my real sweet spot is women that are 5’1 and 5’2, with 50% and 44% matching with my height of 5’7. Apparently only 11% of women who are my height said they would date a guy their own height.

Ok, awesome, whatever, I WAS ALL EXCITED TO GET ME A 5’1 SOUL MATE! So I went to match.com, and searched for 5’1 women who are between the ages of 26 and 32. So even though 50% of them said they would date my height, there is not very many of them. Like at all. There were only 70 profiles that were active in the last 2 weeks. So REALLY that only leaves about 35 women between the age of 26-32 that are 5’1 that would actually date me. 35 is not a lot. Yes 35 is more than 0. But barely. That’s probably a whole other infographic I could make of what is the actual size (population) of my dating pool and not percentages.

What else did I discover?

I learned that age didn’t matter. Meaning that all 26 year olds had a median height of about 5’9 for their minimum height, and so did 27 year olds and so did every age group.

I might be an awful human for doing this:

I also discovered something interesting….and I know this is going to sound awful coming out of my mouth, but that’s only because it is. So, I also collected another data point…..I recorded each woman’s relative attractiveness. I KNOW I KNOW, I’m an awful person. BUT I wanted to know (and had to know) if people that “weren’t as attractive” had a shorter height preference. Yes, beauty is subjective, so this won’t be as scientific but I tried to be as fair with the rating as possible. It was a 1 to 10 scale with no woman getting below a 4 and no woman getting a 10. And I tried to do a relative attractiveness scale, in that is she attractive to the masses. Because my idea of attractive is different than yours, but in general, I think society kind of has a norm of attractive. Let me say, that every woman is beautiful to someone, and now let me say I’m an awful person because I rated women, but it was for science. BUT I did discover a consistent trend, that woman who were rated below average attractiveness (less than 7), did have a significantly lower median of height preference. At least .5 inches and all the way up to 1.5 inches, which is significant considering the low variance of medians of the whole population. So yes, less attractive women have a lower minimum height preference. I’m not going to speculate or commentary on why that may be, but, statistically speaking, it’s a fact.

I’m sorry I rated women subjectively, but the data shows a statistically trend. Yes, it’s wrong I did it, but math proved it true. I decided not to post the data specifically of those results, as I’m already going to get yelled at for just mentioning it.

What’s the take away:

Believe it or not this isn’t my “WHAAAAAAA, WHAAAAA, I’m only 5’8 and girls don’t want to date me, whaaaa, whaaaa” post. This was just a statistical presentation of data from match.com of women’s ideal preferences. I will probably use this data to make the decision to stop doing online dating. Because only 33% percent of my dating pool on this medium actually wants to date me. And you’re probably saying “33% is a still a third Steven, that’s a lot”. First of all it’s fucking rude to talk when I’m talking, I was in the middle of something and you just kind of interrupted, what I was saying was, in a hyper competitive market place like match.com women are given choice. Each day women are bombarded with messages from different guys, giving them choice. And now given the choice, wouldn’t you choose your preferred ideal? For example, you love pizza, like fucking love to eat pizza. And every day you get the option to eat bagels, burritos or pizza. Now, even though you like bagels and burritos, and you’ll eat them no problem, you fucking love pizza. So given the choice, you always pick pizza. I forget what I was saying, but basically pizza is pretty good.

I’ll close with, I don’t have a short man complex, at least I don’t think I do? I’ve dated women taller, and have no problem with it. I’m confident in my ability to find my person, I just don’t think match.com is the place to do it, statistically speaking. I’m not going to get any taller, which is why I developed over woman attracting qualities, like being funny, being outgoing, being a gentleman, being involved with the community (I’ve been president of 2 different non-profit organizations, and I’ve coached a Special Olympics basketball for the last 7 years), I’m one of the best dancers you’ve ever met, being educated (masters degree) having a great career, and being able to brag about myself in my own blog. So don’t reach out to me to pity party me. Only reach out to me if you’d like to date me. I’m just kidding. No, I’m not.

P.S. On a side note, I think I love data. I think I need a career where I can mine through data, find patterns, do analysis and tell a story with data visualization. FIND ME A JOB WHERE I CAN DO THAT. K, thanks.