So recently, I met up with this girl and we had lunch somewhere. As we were talking, somehow the topic got onto dieting or something like that, and I mentioned how I gained a bit of weight and how I could stand to lose like 10 pounds.
All of the sudden she says 'well, because you're so tall you carry it well, you look good', now the kicker here is that I'm 5'7. You might think that, surely this girl was like 5 feet tall so maybe I looked tall to her, but in reality this chick was like 5'6. Also, I'm very short relative to other men in the country I live in, so it's not like I'm 'relatively tall', I'm just straight up short. Now the strange thing is that, this isn't even the first time that something like this has happened to me. I've also had experiences where women would call some guy short, and then after I would point out he was the same height as me they would go 'no way, you're taller' or something along those lines. I've had this happen with women that were romantically attracted to me, but also platonic friends and female family members. Now personally I think this is related to some kind of halo-effect type phenomena. The women in these scenarios perceived me as being attractive (facially I suppose), or in the case of family members otherwise thought positively about me in general.

I don't really have a conclusion or a point, but I think it's funny how blatantly objective empirical observations can be improperly perceived because of a cognitive distortion.