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I only heard about TikTok probably a couple of month ago,as I 'checked out' from social media platforms long time ago. Now what they are doing is is awful, howe

I only heard about TikTok probably a couple of month ago,as I 'checked out' from social media platforms long time ago. Now what they are doing is is awful, however, that's already the case across the board. The world celebrates handsome men chasing a ball, women that have more silicone and botox in them than an average lab. We somehow give more attention to someone,who's ass size falls within 9th percentile, than the scientist,who discovers cure for some nasty disease. We reward people with tons of cash for coming up with some nonse, science free absurd, while we are ready to throw stones at anyone who says that oil fried fries are bad for us. The same crap happens on youtube or instagram,where pretty faces push yet another cream from big name corp.

PaulKeeble 7y ago
In offices, managers are taller and more handsome than the average. What we reward as a society in the west is beauty, not merit and hard work, unfortunately. Study after study shows the same trend in a huge variety of ways, from believing in social mobility to thinking job performance is about job performance despite the often opposite. But I also think this level of anti-intellectualism is temporary.
- YarickR2 7y ago
  Unfortunately ? We're promoting keeping body healthy and proprotional and fit.
  - whyaduck 7y ago
    And taller?
    - catalogia 7y ago
      Maybe tall people have more confidence on average, which in certain leadership roles, could be a legitimate aspect of merit.
      - anoncake 7y ago
        Why should taller people be more confident? Because people respect them for being tall?
        catalogia 7y ago
        Maybe tall people are precisely as confident as they should be, and it's short people who have issues. e.g. "Napoleon Complex". I've personally met more than a few people who fall into this phenomena. It's not a trait that's compatible with good leadership skills. As for why this might be the case at all, I'd guess it has something to do with us being glorified apes. > In 2018, evolutionary psychologist Mark van Vugt and his team at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam found evidence for the Napoleon complex in human males. Men of short stature behaved more (indirectly) aggressive in interactions with taller men. Their evolutionary psychology hypothesis argues that in competitive situations when males, human or nonhuman, receive cues that they are physically outcompeted, the Napoleon complex psychology kicks in: physically weaker males should adopt alternative behavioral strategies to level the playing field, including showing indirect aggression and coalition building.[10] Of course these are generalities and you can find many exceptions, but the same is true of "managers tend to be taller"; that too is a generality with many exceptions.
- orestarod 7y ago
  There is correlation. Someone who cannot take care of themselves is probably not suitable to lead others. In work, "beauty" regards more what you can alter on yourself than what you were given at birth.
  - DoreenMichele 7y ago
    There is some correlation, but it's not perfect. I've thought a lot about this and I think beauty is both shorthand for "that looks like someone healthy and very functional" and also is something that can be faked, so it's not a reliable indicator. For this reason, I think it will always be both valued and controversial. To whatever degree it genuinely signals something of underlying value, like health and competence, it's useful shorthand. To whatever degree it is a signal that is hackable, it's shorthand with a poor signal-to-noise ratio. I don't think we will ever completely solve it. We will always be caught between those two facts.
    - s17n 7y ago
      Let me help: it's not actually a useful signal. Solved!

PaulKeeble 7y ago

In offices, managers are taller and more handsome than the average. What we reward as a society in the west is beauty, not merit and hard work, unfortunately. Study after study shows the same trend in a huge variety of ways, from believing in social mobility to thinking job performance is about job performance despite the often opposite. But I also think this level of anti-intellectualism is temporary.

YarickR2 7y ago
Unfortunately ? We're promoting keeping body healthy and proprotional and fit.
- whyaduck 7y ago
  And taller?
  - catalogia 7y ago
    Maybe tall people have more confidence on average, which in certain leadership roles, could be a legitimate aspect of merit.
    - anoncake 7y ago
      Why should taller people be more confident? Because people respect them for being tall?
      - catalogia 7y ago
        Maybe tall people are precisely as confident as they should be, and it's short people who have issues. e.g. "Napoleon Complex". I've personally met more than a few people who fall into this phenomena. It's not a trait that's compatible with good leadership skills. As for why this might be the case at all, I'd guess it has something to do with us being glorified apes. > In 2018, evolutionary psychologist Mark van Vugt and his team at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam found evidence for the Napoleon complex in human males. Men of short stature behaved more (indirectly) aggressive in interactions with taller men. Their evolutionary psychology hypothesis argues that in competitive situations when males, human or nonhuman, receive cues that they are physically outcompeted, the Napoleon complex psychology kicks in: physically weaker males should adopt alternative behavioral strategies to level the playing field, including showing indirect aggression and coalition building.[10] Of course these are generalities and you can find many exceptions, but the same is true of "managers tend to be taller"; that too is a generality with many exceptions.
orestarod 7y ago
There is correlation. Someone who cannot take care of themselves is probably not suitable to lead others. In work, "beauty" regards more what you can alter on yourself than what you were given at birth.
- DoreenMichele 7y ago
  There is some correlation, but it's not perfect. I've thought a lot about this and I think beauty is both shorthand for "that looks like someone healthy and very functional" and also is something that can be faked, so it's not a reliable indicator. For this reason, I think it will always be both valued and controversial. To whatever degree it genuinely signals something of underlying value, like health and competence, it's useful shorthand. To whatever degree it is a signal that is hackable, it's shorthand with a poor signal-to-noise ratio. I don't think we will ever completely solve it. We will always be caught between those two facts.
  - s17n 7y ago
    Let me help: it's not actually a useful signal. Solved!