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Wow, talk about correlation != causation. Being attractive increases your likelihood of being wealthy. You know what else is good for your skin? Lower stress, s

Wow, talk about correlation != causation. Being attractive increases your likelihood of being wealthy. You know what else is good for your skin? Lower stress, something else correlated with high incomes. People who are wealthy also tend to take better care of themselves, via healthy diets, adequate hydration, and enough sleep, which the article mentions as also helping skin health. There is no effort to exclude these confounding variables in this article, or even that the aforementioned expensive skin treatments do anything at all. Or that the rich people even use these treatments. All it says is that only the rich have access to these treatments, and therefore that's why their skin looks better. You could just as easily write an article with the title "The Best Trick to Get Rich: Have Good Skin".

anbotero 8y ago
During my childhood I lived in the most exclusive and with the (actual) most rich families of my hometown. I think, in fact, the factors you mention make it for better skin than using skin-care products. I say this because in retrospective I remember a lot of the girls there did NOT use makeup of any sort, and they had beautiful, almost perfect skin (some with acne, but the skin itself was smooth), compared to my sister or any of my girl friends at school (living among the richest doesn’t mean I was). I lived there for 14 years, but studying the change between my neighbours and my friends (and myself) at school, wow, the difference was incredible. Even these days, no matter how hard they try, I can pretty much all the time distinguish if a person really comes from rich backgrounds or not, by their skin and their voice tone/accents (no matter how hard some people try).