The question is when do we really start to notice how short/tall we are vs the average is there a height at which we notice it. if the avg height is say 5' 10" (~177cm) for men do we say classify as +/- 2" (~5cm) as being in the average range and everyone above/below that as being tall/short?
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The question is when do we really start to notice how short/tall we are vs the average is there a height at which we notice it. if the avg height is say 5' 10" (~177cm) for men do we say classify as +/- 2" (~5cm) as being in the average range and everyone above/below that as being tall/short?
I was in the slightly unusual position of being tall for my age until I was about 9, and then I stopped growing when I was 11. In the meantime the bulk of my age peers kept growing, of course, so I was very conscious of everyone literally growing around me. By the time I was 15 I was the second shortest person in a school with 650 pupils. Trust me, you take notice. 
It can also depend on the ethnic background of the people around you. The high school I mentioned above was mostly WASP, but when I changed to a Catholic high school populated mostly by students of southern Italian decent there were many more classmates who were on the short side as well, and while I was still shorter than most of my classmates the actual difference in height was no longer as obvious and several other pupils were shorter than me.
