This just in. It’s better to be attractive.
That goes for everything - inlcuding getting to make out with other hot people - so one would rightly assume it goes for income earning potential as well (not that attractive people ever have to pay for anything anyway).
This study finds that, even accounting for intelligence, one’s income prospects are enhanced by being good-looking … people who are attractive do think more highly of their worth and capabilities … and this self-confidence … results in higher earnings and less financial stress.
“We can be somewhat heartened by the fact that the effects of general mental ability on income were stronger than those of facial attractiveness,” the scholars write. “It turns out that the brainy are not necessarily at a disadvantage to the beautiful, and if one possesses both intelligence and good looks, then all the better.”
I can almost guarantee that this study was performed by attractive people. Ugly people already know the littany of advantages to being good looking, and there’s no reason one wouldn’t include higher income on the long, long list of the upsides to being hot.
link via FT.com
