While I'm not short, I have short friends and have also seen the exbfs and new bfs of my girlfriends. A gf in med school once left me for another med student that was maybe 5'7". My exgf just married a guy 6 months after meeting him.. he's 5'8" at the most. I have countless examples of girls that sounded like they really appreciated my height, and maybe they did, but they end up with shorter guys that have other physical or attitude traits going for them. Basically as you would expect statistically.
I think you’re missing the point. No one is saying that shorter men will never be desirable to any woman. What this study suggests is that being short is a disadvantage, so short people either need to have some other traits that compensate or they won’t find a partner. In the study, they used salary to measure this (it’s ok to be short as long as you earn 270k). So yes, it’s great you know some short guys who are exemplary enough to overcome to stigma of being short. But there are plenty of unremarkable short people who are struggle.
I just think the money is a weird metric. If a guy is 5'6", he could either remain a chubby dork and try to earn $270k, or he could work out and have some kind of leadership role in his community to get a better quality woman. Sounds like working out and being more assertive is a lot easier than making 3x the national income for most people. Also, if you do remain a dork and use money, your wife will still feel like she sold her soul and sex life for money. Why not just become desirable instead and then also make as much money as you want?