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pretty sure it's bullshit but from this frame the better guess would be to try to calculate length of stretched arms finger to finger, as it's supposed to be equal or very close to your height.
... unless you're as lanky as lanky kong, lol.
But yes, human anatomy generally falls within proportional relative ranges, and when they are closer to the high or low end of those ranges, its noticeable, and we tend to use adjectives or phrases that ... we don't all the time realize that that is what they are describing.
When they exceed those general ranges, we have words that are more like medical diagnoses... or sometimes slurs, unfortunately.
Tangential ramble:
OkCupid, way way back before they got bought out by MatchGroup, they once ran and published via blog post a very interesting study on their own user base.
Basically, when it came to faces, there were general trends in the proportionality of different facial feature configurations being seen as broadly more or less attractive by the people that user says they are looking to date.
IE, here is our rough mathematical model of an 'attractive' face vs an 'unattractive' face, which most people broadly agree on, this person is a 3, that one is a 6, this one is a 9, etc.
But there was also something they didn't expect.
Some people, who have particularly uncommon, specific facial feature proportions...
They would not have broad agreement as to who was indicating they were attractive vs unattractive.
Basically, they were if you sorted a reddit/lemmy comment by 'controversial'.
Some group of people very much liked their unique features, others very much disliked it. Lots of very high # ratings vs lots of very low # ratings, as compared to 'typical' people who would have more like a standard bell curve distribution of # scores centered around a mean.
So... to some extent, there is a shared, general consensus of what constitutes an attractive vs unattractive face.
But going along side that, of people with certain rather striking, unique, abnormal features... well, for them, beauty is more in the eye of the specific beholder.