That makes sense in this setting. I guess the question most people want answered in this kind of study is: are attractive people (positively) discriminated? Di

That makes sense in this setting. I guess the question most people want answered in this kind of study is: are attractive people (positively) discriminated? Discrimination in a setting requires that the attributes is irrelevant in the setting. A blind person cannot be a pilot, that's not discrimination. In most career settings beauty is irrelevant and therefore an attribute that can be discriminated. If you get a raise because of your beauty in most situations that is a kind of discrimination (but not if you're a model). In the setting of marriage beauty is generally considered relevant and therefore not an attribute that can be discriminated against. If the study aims to investigate discrimination because of attractiveness it makes sense to separate between financial outcomes because of career and financial outcomes because of marriage.