Comments on: Tall people have slower nerves, sensory lag

By: Randwolf

Randwolf — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 04:28:11 +0000

Sure. I’ve been around some very tall people and their senses are very slow in comparison. I just get things faster than they do and am able to capitalize on them. But, I do believe that their inherent slowness is not because their height. I believe it is because they are used to not having to be able to think on their toes as much, having used their height to an advantage to get what they desire. I believe it is a self trained aspect of mental slowness. I believe that given enough time, taller people are capable of achieving awesome mental feats, even surpassing shorter persons. I believe that it should be the goal of the shorter person to achieve the slowness and consistency of a taller person, and the goal of a taller person to achieve quickness and intrepidness of the shorter person.

By: Tom Michael

Tom Michael — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:39:52 +0000

At 0.27ms per cm of height, it might be significant, but its hardly a large effect.
I’m quite tall, but even if I was 30cm taller than another person, thats still only a difference of about 10ms (average reaction speed is supposed to be something like 250ms if I recall correctly).
Still the 50ft woman would be badly effected, about 450ms slower than most people, which would definately be noticable.

By: fanatixx

fanatixx — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:29:21 +0000

g as in general intelligence?

By: Caleb Zhang

Caleb Zhang — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:20:16 +0000

There’s a 0.2 correlation between height & g.