I have to agree with the article - height is important to me! However, I'm really looking for someone to see relatively eye-to-eye with, not significantly taller (as the article might seem to indicate), nor significantly shorter.

I don't think it's that simple, Scienceman. There has to be chemistry, otherwise what's the point. And the only way to have chemistry with someone without obvious attributes is to take time to get to know people. Which is hard with a dating site. If I go out specifically on a date with a stranger, and he doesn't immediately appeal to me, it'll be hard to do it again. But if I'm out doing something I like, and we get to know each other without the pressure to date, I may get to know and like the person you are, and develop attraction. So what I'm saying is, if you're short in the looks department, go real easy on a a woman. Don't have high expectations from her, and see what develops.

I am not one that wants a taller man. As long as he is a good person thats all that matters

I really don't buy the evolution argument, and I didn't expect to find it at eHarmony. As an evangelical Christian, I believe God created men and women fearfully, wonderfully, and uniquely. The idea that a taller man has "better" genes contradicts not only my theology, but also my experience. From the genetic standpoint: Height does not necessarily correlate to strength, and it certainly has nothing to do with intelligences--including the bodily-kinesthetic intelligence of the athlete. Of course, a taller man can, if all other factors are equal, run faster than a shorter man; but quickness, strength, agility, and intellect can be far more important survival factors in the physical competition Darwinian evolution describes (as a good football game or wrestling match can illustrate). | Biblically speaking, shorter (than Saul and his brothers) David was a greater warrior than virtually anyone—not just in the miraculous defeat of Goliath and the Philistines, but against the wild beasts and when leading his mighty men and his armies into battle. | Today, however, physical speed, brute strength, and martial artistry does not serve any practical function for most men (or their significant others or their dependents). Height, as always, plays a role in which man is chosen—statistical evidence proves that—but it is a socially constructed, not a logically founded or biologically necessary role. As the fiction of ape-men competing with one another as animals never happened, my hunch is that this (notion of height equating to biological fitness as a mere social-construct) is pretty much all it has ever been. | At 5'9" I stand, according to statistics, one inch shorter than the average 27-year-old Caucasian male. I have relatively limited dating experience for my 26 years, but in that experience I’ve dated girls my height, shorter than me, and taller than me. Yes, I do think girls generally prefer a taller man; I confess I’ve felt awkward at times alongside significantly taller dates. But my encouragement to other men on the shorter half of our gender is that there are plenty of quality women—including women taller than you—who find you attractive for those unique and wonderful attributes God made you with. And my encouragement to everyone is to move past evolutionary nonsense and unfounded social prejudices to see people as they are and judge them by the content of their character.