Line spacing in overleaf changes the position of tables

I am using overleaf to write an academic paper. When I insert the linespacing command at the very beginning, it pushes all the tables I have fitted with paragraphs to the very end of the document. It also increases the line spacing within these tables which I do not want. Is there anyway to fix this issue?

documentclass{article}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage{booktabs}
usepackage{outlines}
usepackage{dirtytalk}
usepackage{latexsym}
usepackage{amsmath}
usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor}
usepackage[a4paper, total={6in, 8in}]{geometry} %Command that creates the issue
renewcommand{baselinestretch}{1.5}

begin{document} 
section*{Introduction}
This is the text in first paragraph. This is the text in first paragraph. This is the text in first paragraph. 

begin{table}[h]
   small 
   centering
   caption{Descriptive Statistics}
   label{tab:my-table}
      begin{tabular}{@{}lcccc@{}}
         toprule
          & multicolumn{2}{c}{} & multicolumn{2}{c}{}  midrule
          &  (1975-77) &  &  (1975-77) & 
          &  &  &  &  
          &  &  &  &  
         .
         .
         .
      end{tabular}
   end{table}
end{document}