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Very - you can predict success to some extent based purely on people's yearbook photos: > Here the authors find that inferences of power from photos of the fac
by jstx1 4y ago
Very - you can predict success to some extent based purely on people's yearbook photos:
> Here the authors find that inferences of power from photos of the faces of the managing partners of America’s top 100 law firms significantly corresponded to their success as leaders, as measured by the amounts of profits that their firms earned. More interesting, this relationship was also observed when judgments were made based on photos of the leaders taken from their undergraduate yearbooks, before they began their careers or entered law school. Facial cues to success may therefore be consistent across much of the lifespan (approximately 20–50 years).
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258189428_Judgments_of_Power_From_College_Yearbook_Photos_and_Later_Career_Success https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258189428_Judgments...
There is also - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect - which is different from the above but obviously related.
- Helmut10001 4y agoNon-paywall link: https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/33197/1/Rule%26Ambady%282011%29.pdf https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/33197/1/Ru...
- WithinReason 4y ago> you can predict success to some extent based purely on people's yearbook photos It's already shown that facial attractiveness can predict athletic prowess: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1474704918801369 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1474704918801369 So it's likely that people's abilities can influence their appearance. There was a lot of evolutionary pressure to develop abilities to judge people based on appearance, so we would expect humans to be really good at it.
- ethanbond 4y agoThis result isn’t surprising at all though, compared to financial success. Obviously athleticism would be physically visible on the face (and probably be considered more attractive).
- petesergeant 4y ago> Obviously athleticism would be physically visible on the face It what now? What athleticism cues other than body-fat are you getting from a face?
- im3w1l 4y agoTestosterone is also visible. But it seems it's not necessarily a positive for attraction? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.22.453412v1.full https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.22.453412v1....
- barry-cotter 4y agoTestosterone levels. I know a cleft chin develops with high T. I’m sure there are other more subtle diagnostic traits. Probably more stereotypically masculine traits like heavy brow ridges.
- WithinReason 4y agoTestosterone could also predict success in life based on yearbook photos, so we come full circle.
- ethanbond 4y agoWhy would you suppose a person needs more cues than body fat to see a difference? Seems perfectly sufficient on its own.
- petesergeant 4y agoBecause I think Vitalik Buterin probably has low athleticism and I think Ben Tameifuna probably has high athleticism, and a headshot of the former could be a school's star cross-country runner where the latter could be the school's star beer drinker.
- ethanbond 4y ago
- layer8 4y agoBe careful though, it’s easy to slide into pseudoscience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiognomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiognomy