The single exception is height. Tall men are universally considered more attractive by women than short men. In the world of dating agencies, the principle that a man must be taller than his date is so universal that it has been called “the cardinal principle of date selection.” Out of 720 applications by couples for bank accounts, only one was from a couple in which the woman was taller than the man, and yet couples chosen at random from the population would show scores of such cases.
