Today we listened to an article about people who want to be tall so badly that they are willing to risk their health. Then we discussed the above question. After all most ballerinas have to be quite short, but a model has to be tall in order to be successful.
Women seem to prefer taller men and men seem to prefer shorter women. Basketball players are in general very tall, but a good volleyball team has a mixture of short and tall people.
One thing was clear, no one thought that it was worth paying to be stretched on a rack just to be a couple of centimeters taller.