At the Head of the Class

Is the kid who stands taller than his classmates more likely to call himself “Doctor” someday? A Swedish researcher thinks so. In a study of nearly 1 million Swedish men, researcher Finn Rasmussen of the Karolinska Institute has found that men taller than 6-foot-4 are two to three times more likely to go on to higher education. Rasmussen, who announced his results last year, speculated it may have something to do with people’s (smaller) expectations for short men.