Height

Height is correlated with a lot of things. Up to a certain height, taller people make more money than the vertically challenged. And the taller [presidential:professional] candidate almost always wins. Now a study finds that your height as an adult has a profound effect on your perception of your health. Short people judge their health to be worse than [average:medium] or tall people judge theirs. The research was published in the journal [Clinical:Medical] Endocrinology. Data for the study came from the 2003 Health Survey for England. More than 14,000 participants filled out [questionnaires:answers] and had their heights measured. The study only looked at how good the subject thought his or her health was, not their actual health. Questions focused on five areas: mobility, self-care, normal activities, pain or discomfort and anxiety or depression. Men shorter than about 5'4" and women shorter than 5' reported the worst impressions.