These numbers seem based on global distributions rather than local ones. After all, six feet is just average height in the Netherlands.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-h...

Maybe that's what the rule tells you. Ladies love the north Europeans.

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thrownawaysz 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'd never call someone from the Netherlands north European, it's western Europe

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bonoboTP an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It's North when contrasted with the South, like the Mediterranean countries, and West when contrasted with the East, like the old Easter Bloc.

	▲	anygivnthursday an hour ago \| parent [-]
		And South when contrasted with the "real" North? Northern Europe is a region and while there can be various definitions the most common ones do not include Benelux countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Europe

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numbers_guy 34 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I'd group the Dutch with the Scandinavians as the "other Germanic branches", possibly also including the UK. As a taxonomy it makes far more sense to me. Western Europe is too broad. You have the French and the Portugese and the Spanish which are all quite different.

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rob74 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Average height for boys that were 19 years old in 2019, not for the entire population.

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consp 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Then again, based on local income statistics. Don't know locality of the third one. It's the good old, lies, damned lies and statistics (and meant as humor thus not really an issue).

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epolanski 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's all relative.

You're gonna need to be even bigger in the netherlands, both in height and salary to impress a dutch woman if you're dutch already.

In south east asia you may get away with less height and money.

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abirch 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe we can get the USA to get the metric system for all those men who are 1.83 meters and below. Or do people internationally say that you need to be 1,8 meters to be dateable?

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Sharlin 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not in salary though, given that the salaries in TFA are local to the US, and West European salaries are lower, as a rule (East European salaries, of course, even lower).

	▲	epolanski 2 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		What an American makes in absolute terms is irrelevant unless you're planning to move to the US. And if you're planning to move to the US, then its still irrelevant, because what matters is how much you make in US compared to the cost of living of the US. Nobody would trade making 40k net in Italy for making 100k net in US, you're actually poorer. So no, all measures are kinda relative.
	▲	pavlov 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		OTOH many women may prefer as partner the European man who doesn't work crazy overtime every night, takes 4 weeks of holidays every year with her, uses his months of legally mandated parental leave when they have a baby... The 6/6/6 dimensions seem to capture very little about what's actually important for the success of a long-term relationship. I guess that's fine, it's presumably a game for 20-year-olds.

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kilroy123 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Men are pretty tall in Montenegro too.