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Fascinating. Attractive children were found to have an average of 12.4 more IQ points than unattractive children. He suggests beauty and IQ are correlated to th
by istjohn 5y ago
Fascinating. Attractive children were found to have an average of 12.4 more IQ points than unattractive children. He suggests beauty and IQ are correlated to the same extent that educational attainment and IQ are.
I think I had read about this or similar research long ago, but that's a bigger effect size than I would've guessed. I wonder if the results could be replicated.
- Cd00d 5y agoThey can be correlated, true, or it can simply be evidence that IQ testing has implicit bias on average. I don't know how IQ is tested these days, but I think historically it was a 1:1 or teacher:classroom sort of assessment.
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