LONDON — Good news if you’ve been told you’re either “very attractive” or “very ugly” — there’s a decent chance you earn more money than those around you, according to a study.
Researchers at the London School of Economics and the University of Massachusetts have been able to somewhat dispel a pervasive theory regarding attractiveness, commonly referred to as a “beauty premium” or the “ugliness penalty.” Previous studies have found that those who are good-looking command higher wages in their employment. This phenomenon has been seen in a wide range of professions, from business to law.
It turns out that people aren’t necessarily discriminated against because of their appearance, the researchers determined.
For their analysis, Satoshi Kanazawa and Mary Still, the study’s co-authors, examined a dataset pulled from a popular survey looking at adolescents, the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, also known as “Add Health.” The survey is notable in that it measures physical attractiveness for a given individual in four installments over a period of 13 years, doing so on a five-point scale.
In their analysis, Kanazawa and Still write that while more attractive individuals often out-earned their less attractive peers, this was often due to the presence of other qualities. Those qualities being smarter, healthier, calmer, more extroverted, and more conscientious.
“Physically more attractive workers may earn more, not necessarily because they are more beautiful, but because they are healthier, more intelligent, and have better personality traits conducive to higher earnings,” says Kanazawa in a statement.
Attractiveness can be beneficial either way, for some
Interestingly, those who were categorized by Add Health as being “very unattractive” were also higher earners. They always outearned those who were deemed “merely unattractive,” and in some cases made more money than individuals of average and above-average attractiveness.
The finding that those on the far end of either side of the beauty spectrum make a better living was likely skipped over in previous studies because individuals less attractive than average were all lumped into one category.
In addition, few studies have examined all of the combined factors that Kanazawa and Still took into account.
The study is published in the Journal of Business and Psychology.
Who is determining who is ugly and who is beautiful?
So I’ve got a chance!
Zuckerberger is the ugly little twerp that never got laid.
Makes sense. I’m butt ugly and make an okay living. Unfortunately now that Ringling Bros has closed……
It makes the beautiful people feel better if they think they can succeed financially. Epic fails are epic fails.Succeed how? So if you are beautiful and stupid, you might have to blow a few more people, if you are beautiful and smart and think everything is going to get handed to you, you still have to blow a few more people. If your stupid, you are the people protesting Trump right now.
>Jews are ugly
>therefore ugly people are good with money
Flawed logic
Follow people conducting a survey on ugly people’s earnings back to their University and ugly people will answer the door.
I’m so ugly that when I cry, the tears run down the back of my head.
Wrong. More successful people are more attractive.
Not much going on here. Bye.
Good news for liberals.
Social engineers engaged in nonsensical social engineering… want you to believe attractive people are generally smarter, healthier, calmer, more extroverted, and more conscientious. Attractiveness is largely genetic… any other genetic characteristics that someone made those claims about would be rightfully run out of town on a rail.
Hillary Clinton, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi? If you can’t be a good example then at least you can be a horrible warning. ; )
Psychology is an irreproducible custom-fit fraud, p < 0.001. Human Resources hires pleasant mediocrities – drinking buddies – to avoid risk. This effectively staffs Sales & Marketing. It is lethal in math, engineering, science, technology, and research where mediocrity (diversity, equal opportunity, social promotion) is a vice of the doomed..
If you need bleeding edge triumph you hire autism, Jews, Asians, and East Indians with fat university GPAs. Yeah, they're gonna be ugly, unkempt, and socially vile. Look at your spreadsheets, and smile.
Depends on your definition of ‘ugly’. Most people are probably pretty normal looking, and a lot of people will change depending on the day (sleep, mood, etc…). There are very few people who are just flat out ‘ugly’ with no change of redemption.
Plus, a lot of jobs don’t require you ever meeting the customer, so as long as you don’t offend your co-workers, who cares?
That’s true.Hillary was a lawyer.
Ugly people sure like to protest.
If pretty, go into show business, if ugly go into politics, both make a lot of money.
UGLY DEFINED
An ugly woman
walks into a shop with her two kids.
The shopkeeper asks “Are they twins”?
The woman says “No, he’s 9 and she’s 7.
Why? Do you think they look alike?”
“No,” he replies “I just can’t believe you got laid twice”!
Meryl Streap did okay, and she’s nothing to write home about.