So, according to a new study, men’s height can have a significant influence on their success in the only quantifiable measure of dating we have: the online one.

The study, still under peer review before publication, analyzed 22,000 online daters and found that women put a premium on income and height when deciding which men to contact, said Dan Ariely, a Duke behavioral economist who worked with University of Chicago researchers on the project.

For example, the study showed a 5-foot-9-inch man needs to make $30,000 more than a 5-foot-10-inch one to be as successful in the dating pool.

So, at $30,000 an inch, Mason being 5′ 10″, and me at 6′ 3″, that makes me $150,000 more valuable to women than Mason.

What? It’s science!