We examine the effects of students' physical appearance upon examination results. We f[o]und evidence that beauty has a significant impact on academic performance, a result which is consistent with and comparable to the impact found in labour market literature.
Correlation is not causation.
I'm going to have to read this paper to see whether they have controlled for the examiner knowing the examinee. tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
Disclaimer: I have no credentials as a statistician. tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
Do good looks make people more productive? An impact of looks on earnings has been found in the empirical literature: plain people earn less than average-looking people who earn less than good-looking. However, an important question remains unanswered: is the impact of beauty due to pure discrimination or productivity? We provide evidence against the hypothesis of Becker-type discrimination stemming from tastes and in favor of productivity-related discrimination
Fascinatingly, the beauty premium is greater in written exams than oral ones. This suggests the pay-off to good looks (or a lack of ugliness) comes from higher ability rather than discrimination.
beauty has a significant impact on academic performance
Reading their description of the Italian exam system is not only instructive about Italian universities, but also shows that the biases inherent in the data are severe. Basically, if a student fails or chooses to resit an exam for a higher grade, there is no record whatsoever of their failed (or unsatisfactory) attempts. tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
Rather I'd suggest it is the other way around. Intelligence amkes you attractive. After all, we're animals first and foremost so our snap judgements are instinctive, not intellectual (however much we use our intelligence to justify those judgements).
At the bottom line, that animal judgement is about who we'd breed with, who would make a more succesful breeding partner. Intelligence is survival plus, thus intelligence is attractive.
It is only a decadent modernity that has developed a bias against understanding with words like geek and nerd to make intelligence unattractive. But that's the social intellect talking, not the animal. keep to the Fen Causeway
Is academic test performance correlated with IQ test performance? tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
Intelligence is assumed to be an innate quality of an individual, yet you can practice or be coached to improve IQ results. So it must follow that the test cannot possibly measure intelligence.
The IQ snobs form a club called mensa, an acronym popularly believed to mean "Mental Elitism Never Solved Anything". keep to the Fen Causeway
It does not said anything about intelligence...if thic an be defined at all.
It is even simpler. Give the same exam to two subsets of teachers and tell them in advance if it belongs to an student with very good grades or an student with bad grades adn failing.
Amazingly enough , the good student identical test gets better grades always. The discrepances depend ont he pool of professors. For university professors is rather low,a ctually within two standards deviation.
For high-school and primary school the differences reach easily three sigmas.
This does not mean that the article is right.. but it is indeed possible. It explains what kind of status and rewards we give to different people at different stages in life.
I can tell you that a very good-looking man or woman in a physics class is seen as highly suspicious..but not in economics... they would probably get less or more grades in the experiment designed above...
But maybe their experiment is not properly done. You need blind and double blind experiments...and they do not seem to be worried about that.
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
