DanArmak comments on Shortness is now a treatable condition - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanArmak 20 October 2009 03:42:16PM 2 points [-]

within 1.2% of most extreme shortness (which is highly atypical)

There always are the 1.2% shortest people. We'd end up making the whole population infinitely tall :-) They should define it as "at least X deviations below mean". I would support that.