I’d argue that height privilege (up to a point, typically around 6′6″) is a real thing, having nothing to do with being good at sports. There is a noted experiment, which my google-fu is currently failing to turn up, in which participants were shown a video of an interview between a man and a woman. In one group, the man was standing on a footstool behind his podium, so that he appeared markedly taller than the woman. In the other group, the man was standing in a depression behind his podium, so t that he appeared shorter. The content of the interview was identical.
Participants rated the man in the “taller” condition as more intelligent and more mature than the same man in the “shorter” condition. That’s height privilege.
There’s also a large established correlation between height and income, though not enough to completely rule out a potential common cause like “good genes” or childhood nutrition.
So would you describe someone tall as having “height privilege” because they’re better at basketball?
I’d argue that height privilege (up to a point, typically around 6′6″) is a real thing, having nothing to do with being good at sports. There is a noted experiment, which my google-fu is currently failing to turn up, in which participants were shown a video of an interview between a man and a woman. In one group, the man was standing on a footstool behind his podium, so that he appeared markedly taller than the woman. In the other group, the man was standing in a depression behind his podium, so t that he appeared shorter. The content of the interview was identical.
Participants rated the man in the “taller” condition as more intelligent and more mature than the same man in the “shorter” condition. That’s height privilege.
There’s also a large established correlation between height and income, though not enough to completely rule out a potential common cause like “good genes” or childhood nutrition.