The ones who have the advantage are those who laugh at perceived physical disadvantage, and largely ignore it apart from some determination to be an anomaly in any such statistics.
Besides, it's fun if you can show up some fit-looking couple-of-decades-younger guy who's nearly a foot(*) taller than you are...
(*) For the non-Imperialists here, a foot is ~30cm – I may be a scientist and would normally use metric, but I guess I'm also becoming a bit of an old fogey these days, and it sounds so much better to British ears to use this unit in a sentence like this
- and, yes, that sort of height difference is very regularly the case for me