New psychology findings suggest that attractive students earn higher grades in school,but for female students, this beauty premium disappears when classes are taught remotely. The findings were published in the journal Economic Letters.



A large body of research suggests that physical appearance has an impact on a person’s success.For example, attractive people tend to earn more money and report higher life satisfaction than less attractive people.



One account suggests that the beauty advantage can be explained by discrimination.For example, employers may inherently favor attractive over unattractive workers. Another perspective suggests that beauty is a productivity-enhancing attribute. This view suggests that attractiveness lends itself to higher productivity, for example, through increased self-confidence.


Mehic conducted a natural experiment to hopefully shed light on an explanation for the beauty premium.The study investigated the effect of student attractiveness on university grades during both in-person instruction and remote instruction. This design allowed the study author to better isolate the effect of appearance since student-teacher interaction is much lower during remote instruction compared to in-person instruction. Any attractiveness advantage observed during remote classes is more likely due to a productivity-enhancing effect rather than discrimination.


The researcher obtained data from five different cohorts of engineering students from a Swedish university, resulting in a final sample of 307 students.Notably, students in two of these cohorts had attended a portion of their classes remotely when the COVID-19 pandemic pushed instruction online. The content of these courses stayed the same, but lectures and seminars were conducted online.



Although students were encouraged to turn their video cameras on during lessons, it was not required. To obtain an attractiveness score for each student, Mehic had an independent sample of 74 individuals rate the attractiveness of the students’ faces.

When analyzing the data, Mehic first found evidence of the beauty premium in traditional in-person instruction.For non-quantitative courses (e.g., business, economics) that were taught fully online, student attractiveness was positively correlated with student grades. However, this effect was not found for quantitative courses (e.g., math, physics). This was in line with the researcher’s expectations since non-quantitative classes tend to include assignments and presentations that encourage student-teacher interaction, while quantitative classes are often graded entirely through final exams.


The results next revealed that the switch to online instruction eliminated the beauty premium — but only for female students.For non-quantitative courses, attractive female students saw a decline in their grades with remote instruction, while attractive male students continued to enjoy a beauty advantage.


According to the study author, these findings suggest that discrimination most likely explains the beauty premium for female students, who no longer had higher grades when classes turned remote.

“The main takeaway is that there is a beauty premium both for males and for females when teaching is on-site,” Mehic explained. “But for females, this effect disappeared when teaching was conducted online. This, at least to me, suggests that the beauty premium for males is due to some productive attribute (for instance, them having higher self-confidence) rather than discrimination, whereas it is due to discrimination for women.”


Summary:
5 studies were done involving students from Swedish University. It was found that for in person classes both attractive men and women get higher grades than average people. However, when moved to online classes, attractive women grades drop in subjects like Math and Physics where cam to cam interactions aren't necessary for the course.

Source of article:https://www.psypost.org/2022/11/attr...covid-19-64251

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Studies like this reek of presumptionary science where the hypothesis looks to skew statistics in its favour but yeah still wouldn't be surprised

New study: water is wet

No way looks play a role in grades.

I think these studies show what they show cuz sloots too busy scrolling IG instead of putting in work.

U women haters try to turn every stone i swear.

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