This could be the most significant finding about taller men and slimmer women

Yada, yada, yada -- as if this is something utterly new.

Okay, this is all about men being tall and women being slim. Researchers from the University of Essex in London now are ‘officially’ saying (so we are talking about measured data here) that when it comes to love, or rather attraction, physical dimensions really does matter.

(Short men and fat women are in for some beating – not again!)

At least in speed-dating sessions, the study found that for every inch taller a man is than his "rivals," the number of women who want to meet him again increases by five percent.

This may render you flabbergasted: being fat makes little difference to a man's success. So the beefcakes are not a threat.

Alas, weight issues especially those on the hefty side is likely to tear down a woman's hopes of success.

The hale and hearty among the ladies may protest but wait till you check your body-mass index (BMI) because the findings do not come without the "vital" statistics.

It says that a woman who is clinically overweight, with a BMI of more than 25, is selected by 70 percent fewer men while women who are unhealthily thin, with an index of less than 18.5, are no more or less successful than women of normal weight.

Size is not all that matters though because the inquisition agrees on the factor of youth. For both genders, being young is an advantage. For the hype, yes they say that an each extra year of age, compared with others in the group, reduces a man's success by four percent and a woman's by five percent.

If the supposed validation is anything but a bad news to big women and short, ageing men, perhaps blame it on two nosy researchers, Michele Belot and Marco Francesconi, who took the pains of analyzing the choices made by 1,800 men and 1,800 women at 84 speed-dating events across the country.

And then make some room for what they observe as their "most significant finding" – that any individual's success is relative to the strength or weakness of the other searchers in the room. Partakers in speed-datings tend to judge each potential partner relative to others at the event.

If anything, the study also pried on a person's smoking habits, education and hair color – the "dumb blonde" is no fluke, you bet.