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Most of what a shorter man reads online about dating is either doom or denial. Short King Report is neither. It is a data brief: it tells you where you actually stand, and then it spends all its energy on the parts you control.
Height is one of the most-studied variables in attraction, and the findings are consistent enough to be useful. Taller men receive more first-contact messages. A majority of women filter for a minimum height. None of that is news to a shorter man, and being told it again helps nobody.
What is genuinely useful, and rarely said clearly, is the flip side of the same research: the market lets you compensate. In a large study of online dating, income and height traded off against each other at a measurable rate, roughly $40,000 of annual income for one inch. Fitness is an even faster lever, because male attractiveness peaks in a specific BMI band that most men can reach. Those are things you can move. This report puts your numbers on them.