There this new measurement from the Chip N Dale movie.
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It’s way smaller than anything that should be taken seriously but the meta implications (the show is in-universe fiction within the movie so is it more “real”?) might be worth considering for fun if nothing else.

Yep, this is totally my headcanon!

@redweasel  
Oooh, thanks.
 
Heh, I love mixing up the show’s name, and this is a perfect/cute opportunity…  
“My Magic Friendship: Pony is Little”

oh cool someone covered this in depth.
 
they missed the holstein scale though.

@Seriff Pilcrow  
I’m probably going to get paid for doing science - my first real job - in a month, so it seems to have paid off rather well :p (was able to get some professors’ attention by showing my willingness to work on my own by the work I’ve done)

@Seriff Pilcrow  
I planned to at first, as the video indicated, but that’s kind of on indefinite haiatus, now. For awhile I was thinking of nudging my way into the analysis community with science, but since then I’ve decided I’d rather invest more time in other personal projects (fanfics and art, other hobbies) and do more real-world science as opposed to pony science.

Oh, cool, a pony science video! I wonder how many views this has.
 
[968 views since June 28]
 
Wha- That’s not enough! How could this video have a criminally small reach? We need to amend this situation, stat!
 
(Seriously, though, you did a really nice job with this one, and your video really deserves to be seen by more people. Any chance will see another?)

Actually kinda cool :U

@Cirrus Light  
I do, and I think this is some fine work.

@Cirrus Light  
I thought it was neat. I knew most of the serious estimates put them at about a meter’s height, but this is the first time I’ve seen the data collated like this. (And your headcanon hypothesis w.r.t. the Equestrian carat seems legit.)

I did a little reserch a while back, I got an image of applejack trying to round up some cows, and them comapird her height to that of a standard cow. Sadly the results I got where wild and incosistant, so I discarded them. I can only assume equestria cows are significantly diferent to earth cows.
 
At a later point I had a second go at estimateing the standard size of a pony (fluttershy spesifically, but who it was does not really matter), useing a few methods I cant remember, then lastly modified by ‘hugability’. I admit its not a very scientific aproch, but I get a result of about 110 cm (3 feet, 7 inches). A little heigher then the results seen here, but still well within comfort.

@Background Pony #7C89  
You say that like G1 and G4 can’t be different.

Sheesh. I thought people liked science :/  
Whatever.

@Background Pony #7C89  
What a bundle of fun: downvoting and telling a scientist to not do science.
 
All four data points line up pretty overwhelmingly, I’m afraid. See the video. This isn’t G1. Also there’s still no real saying how strong they are, and very small children could still ride them :q

Please stop. G1 already compares ponies to humans for us. They’re big enough for children to ride around on; and that’s kind of the point in the spirit of kids and marketing. Saying otherwise is just forcing headcanon on am already cartoon world with cartoon logic and physics.