Misleading article headline states that taller people are more productive than short people

Of course, many people just look at the headline and say "See, I told you tall people are better than short people!"

Maybe that is what the taller people who wrote this article are counting on; people not actually reading the article.

It states what we all know, that taller people are paid more.  However, nowhere in the article does it say how they are productive.  It just says they earn more and why?  Because of their height!

Quote from Duncan Thomas, an economics researcher at Duke University:

'There is no question that height is rewarded in the labor market over and above all other controls,' he told Bloomberg.

'It's not that height is just a proxy for cognition, and it's not just a proxy for other measures of health. It is rewarded in and of itself.'

 

 Of course, at the end of the article, it made sure to point out how taller men were more successful in dating and that they are healthier, which has nothing to do with how much they make in the workplace.  It is just another stab at short people.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3632069/Tall-people-productive-short-people-Study-claims-lofty-workers-earn-far-hour-smaller-colleagues.html