About
A map you can act on, not a verdict.
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.
Why this exists
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 Hitsch, Hortacşu and Ariely's 2010 study of a major dating site, income and height traded off against each other at a measurable rate, roughly $40,000 of annual income for one inch. Its data is from the mid-2000s, before swipe apps, so we read that rate as directional rather than a current price. 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.
What we believe
- Empowering, never demeaning. The point is direction to improve, not a ranking to feel bad about.
- Real research or nothing. Every figure on the site and in the report traces to a published source, cited by name.
- The model is shown, not hidden. The desirability percentile is a transparent estimate, not a measurement of you. We show the math in Methodology so you can judge it.
- Height is one input. Confidence, character, style, and social skill are real and matter, and no model here captures them.