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To answer this question, you would need to avoid the reality that looks correlate with good genes which correlate with good life outcomes. Too many confounding
by greatpostman 4y ago
To answer this question, you would need to avoid the reality that looks correlate with good genes which correlate with good life outcomes. Too many confounding factors to establish causality
- ghaff 4y agoI can't tell from the abstract, but I assume "attractiveness" often also correlates to things like confidence, some degree of good habits/taking care of themselves, etc.--any of which could easily correlate to some degree of career success. I'm guessing the correlation of winning the genetic lottery (specifically in terms of looks) with success is not true in academic careers to anything like the same degree it is in, say, acting. But it probably correlates to some degree--as well as with a lot of other factors that are more intuitively related.
- schwartzworld 4y agoAttractiveness also has a lot to do with the time and place when the term is being used. Your idea of beauty may not be someone else's, and for much of history it may be starkly different to what was considered beautiful.
- crabkin 4y agoThere is some element of truth to this, undoubtably. But I would add that there are some qualities like facial symmetry and probably facial harmony moreover that I think are universal.
- bjornsing 4y ago> Too many confounding factors to establish causality With CRISPR gene editing and a randomized controlled trial it could be sorted out. :P