These include:

1) One’s salary
2) Penis size
3) IQ
4) Age (for women)

In short, despite all the idle rhetoric about glorified humanly intangibles, our vis-a-vis valuation of both ourselves and others still boils down to some pretty mundane metrics here. And we know it too – hence are afraid to address such questions in a simple, factual, objective manner.

The problem with dodging such issues head-on is that Nature abhors a vacuum and in the absence of reliable, available data – wild hyperbolized stereotypes abound instead.

For instance, many Americans were initially shocked at the arrival of 7′6″ Yao Ming – believing China instead to be literally a nation of midgets. Some even actually asked if he was the result of Communist genetic engineering! Unbeknownst to them, the average difference in height may only be about an inch – and much of that due to less meat and no dairy in the Chinese diet (vs the US).

This same analogy can be applied to various other racial stereotypes – where grains of truth too often get stretched into noodles of fiction…