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> Human judges give ugly people twice the sentences of attractive people. Judges have been shown to give significantly harsher sentences just before lunch, when
by xkxx 10y ago
> Human judges give ugly people twice the sentences of attractive people. Judges have been shown to give significantly harsher sentences just before lunch, when they are hungry.
It would be nice if you could provide sources for these claims.
- jacquesm 10y agoIt took only 10 seconds of googling to come up with this: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lunchtime-leniency/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lunchtime-lenienc... http://www.villagevoice.com/news/study-ugly-people-more-likely-to-end-up-in-jail-6677702 http://www.villagevoice.com/news/study-ugly-people-more-like...
- CountHackulus 10y agoHere's the paper for the just before lunch claim: http://www.pnas.org/content/108/17/6889 http://www.pnas.org/content/108/17/6889
- soundwave106 10y agoThe lunch statistic probably came from this study: http://www.economist.com/node/18557594 http://www.economist.com/node/18557594 http://www.pnas.org/content/108/17/6889 http://www.pnas.org/content/108/17/6889 (To be fair, the study size was small). There's a study on attractiveness and juror bias here (it's more complicated than just "ugly people get worse sentences" but some bias does show up for certain juror personality types): http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bsl.939/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bsl.939/abstract
- sjg007 10y agoIf there is ever a dress for success time it is when you are in court.