Presidents and Measurements. Share Facebook. In the Presidential Height Challenge students are encouraged to examine the height of ten U. Graph each president's height meters in increasing order. Bush and Joe Biden are the only U. Many in the media speculated that this was to prevent him from being classified as obese according to his body mass index. A number of photos also circulated on social media showing Trump next to and visibly shorter than a number of athletes who are officially 6'3", while photos of him standing next to Barack Obama were used to show that he may be closer to his predecessor's height, at 6'1".
Nonetheless, Trump's medical report from June 3. Loading statistic Show source. Download for free You need to log in to download this statistic Register for free Already a member? Log in. Show detailed source information?
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Log out. We find it difficult to identify leader behaviors that, independently assessed, correlate this highly with leader effectiveness. And what about our current president? Most historians — and public opinion — do not give President Trump particularly high marks after 15 months in office. Poppycock, you say? Look, I am only the messenger here: The eminent philosopher David Hume cautioned us more than years ago to avoid the ought — is problem: He noted that our desire for how things should be colors our evaluation of how things really are.
I do not imagine many of us arguing in favor of height as a factor we should consider in electing or rating our political leaders. But the results clearly suggest it is a significant factor, like it or not. If you allow me to editorialize, my point here is this: If we find fault with our leaders, let us not forget that we elected them. And my opinion is that the way in which we do that — for Republicans and for Democrats — leaves much to be desired. On that front, let me close with a question: As a citizenry, how good of a job do we do identifying the best and the brightest leaders to lead us — and what can we do to help us to choose leaders on the basis of the right leadership qualities and behaviors vs.
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