"Short men make better husbands and they make up in wisdom what they lack in stature", says a self confessed small man, Adam Gopnik. A few weeks ago, an interesting and lengthy paper by a pair of sociologists from New York University made a lot of noise in what would these days be called a Community of Short Men. The authors pointed out that attractive and physically fit men go on more dates and have sex more frequently than others. However, they realized that short men make stable marriages, though they marry late. But they remain happily married, probably because they know that any advantage seized is better kept and they are desperate to prevail over their taller counterparts, so they double their efforts. This is of course called the "Napoleonic Complex".
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