Physical attractiveness and intergenerational social mobility
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Physical attractiveness and intergenerational social mobility
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Re: Physical attractiveness and intergenerational social mobility
#2Interesting that the effect was stronger in males. It looks like the outcomes tracked were education, income, and occupation. I wonder if this is tracking the wrong things; e.g. women can marry into a higher wealth+prestige class without themselves needing to attain education, income, or a job.
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#4Interesting that the effect was stronger in males. It looks like the outcomes tracked were education, income, and occupation. I wonder if this is tracking the wrong things; e.g. women can marry into a higher wealth+prestige class without themselves needing to attain education, income, or a job.
Could be evidence of matriarchy.
If women outnumber men in HR departments and at school, being pleasing to a woman's eye would be helpful in advancing through life more so than being pleasing to men.
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#5Interesting that the effect was stronger in males. It looks like the outcomes tracked were education, income, and occupation. I wonder if this is tracking the wrong things; e.g. women can marry into a higher wealth+prestige class without themselves needing to attain education, income, or a job.
Maybe the proper thing to track is household income, household net worth.
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#6> physical attractiveness, assessed when individuals are around 15 years old
This is weird for a bunch of reasons, the most objective being that appearance changes a lot around that age range. Seems like an odd experimental choice.
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#7Good looking people do better in life. Fascinating.
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I don't think anyone doubts that taller, more attractive men are more likely to be promoted or end up in positions of power. Most obvious example is presidents; average height for presidents is 6 feet.
Re: Physical attractiveness and intergenerational social mobility
#9Interesting that the effect was stronger in males. It looks like the outcomes tracked were education, income, and occupation. I wonder if this is tracking the wrong things; e.g. women can marry into a higher wealth+prestige class without themselves needing to attain education, income, or a job.
Men pursue, women are pursued. If at 15, you’re a male locked in with a thought process that you aren’t attractive or confident, you will miss alot of opportunities. You gotta be in it to win it, as they say.
Women can reinvent, often take different relationship roles, and some guys are into women with low self esteem.