Women will take just about any shortcoming in a man, except in the height department, according to Andrea McGinty, who founded the San Diego-based dating service It's Just Lunch.
　　

McGinty helped ABCNEWS put together an experiment to test just how willing women are to date shorter men. We brought together several short men and asked them to stand next to taller men. We invited groups of women to look at the men and choose a date.
　　

To see if the women would go for short guys who were successful, ABCNEWS' Lynn Sherr created extraordinary résumés for the shorter men. She told the women that the shorter men included a doctor, a best-selling author, a champion skier, a venture capitalist who'd made millions by the age of 25.
　　

Nothing worked. The women always chose the tall men. Sherr asked whether there'd be anything she could say that would make the shortest of the men, who was 5 feet, irresistible. One of the women replied, Maybe the only thing you could say is that the other four are murderers. Another backed her up, saying that had the taller men had a criminal record she might have been swayed to choose a shorter man. Another said she'd have considered the shorter men, if the taller men had been described as child molesters.
　　

The desire for tall men begins very young, apparently. ABCNEWS gave elementary school students a test, asking them to match a small, medium, or large figure of a man with a series of words. The kids overwhelmingly linked the tall figure to the words strong, handsome, and smart. The linked the short figure to the words sad, scared and weak.

除了身高，女人可能会容忍男人的任何短处。下此结论的是Andrea McGinty，他成立了圣地亚哥的午餐约会服务中心。

McGinty 帮助美国广播公司新闻频道做一次实验，看看女人与矮个男人约会的意愿如何。我们安排几个矮个男人站在高个男人身边。然后我们请一组女人从这些男人中挑选约会对象。

为了检验这些女人是否会因为事业有成而选择矮个男子，美国广播公司新闻频道的Lynn Sherr为这些矮个男子制作了非凡的履历。她告诉选约会对象的女人们，这些矮个男人中有医生，有畅销书作者，滑雪冠军，还有一位25岁就挣到几百万的金融投资人。

然而，履历没起作用，这些女人们仍然选中了高个子男子。Sherr问她们，到底要她说什么，才能使她们义无返顾地选中其中一位最矮的男人，他只有5英尺。一位女人回答说：“除非你说其他四位男人是杀人犯。”另一位女子附和说，如果高个男子有犯罪记录，她可以考虑选一位稍矮一些的男人。还有一位女人说，如果有人说这些高个男人是“儿童骚扰者”，她可以考虑选矮一些的男子。

对高个子的希望显然始于孩童。美国广播公司新闻频道在小学生中做了一项试验，要求同学们将小个、中等或大个男人与一些词汇相联，孩子们纷纷将大个男子与强壮、英俊和聪明相联，而将小个男子与悲哀、恐惧和衰弱相联。