@littlest-lily said:
But if someone is filling out a questionnaire that asks for a partner’s ideal height and then it went “but what if it was short term?”
Yes, I am curious about how the question(s) was posed/worded and how they’re interpreted by both responders and the researchers.
Here are the results from an Australian 2019 survey with over 1000 respondents (I’m guessing all male because it was on male beauty). Of those who responded with an opinion, most found 5’5-5’9" as attractive. But the question was “When thinking of beauty, which height do you consider ideal for women?” Which doesn’t mention or overtly suggest the dating or preferential aspect, i.e. you can find features attractive but you wouldn’t necessarily prefer or date a person with those features. Maybe it prefaces in the overarching survey, I don’t know. In saying that, I think it’s a relatively safe assumption to make for most, but can still make for fraught interpretations.
