Looks Do Matter! Good Looking People Have it Easier - Beauty Premium

Decades of research have shown time-to-time that looks matter a lot, even at places you wouldn't expect. Good-looking people seem to get better grades in schools and colleges. Beautiful people even get shorter sentences if convicted? But is this just a random occuring in nature or is there any depth to it? Let's find out in this episode of FutureIQ about The Beauty Premium. How do good-looking people have it easier? Why do looks matter and what can you do about it? More videos for you: Beauty doesn't exist: Hot = Jerk, Cute = Dumb? https://youtu.be/r4Tl1GUeVGs Why idiots think they're smart: https://youtu.be/GtmcY3t5hB4 Hope you enjoyed FutureIQ by Navin Kabra and Shrikant Joshi. Do hit us up on Twitter: @ngkabra http://twitter.com/ngkabra @shrikant https://twitter.com/shrikant Listen it on the podcast provider of your choice: https://tapthe.link/FutureIQRSS Watch other episodes of The FutureIQ podcast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAppTB0r5_TaYueZ0adD42Wiw5X-wTE4v Sources: Impact of online classes: https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/social-relevance/attractive-female-students-lower-grades-online-classes-584450.html Beauty premium among academics: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272775719307538 Face masks reduced beauty premium: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1096348009344234 Freakonomics - Reasons not to be ugly: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/reasons-to-not-be-ugly/ Beauty and fund managers: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4322134 Height - income correlation: https://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug04/standing Jurors penalize unattractive: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2010/05/unattractive-people-pay-price-court Newborns prefer attractive faces: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6355-babies-prefer-to-gaze-upon-beautiful-faces/ Cats prefer attractive faces: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2566458/ Beauty and stock markets: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378426623001929 Attractive people are victim of more crimes: https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.jcrimjus.2019.101652 Ugliness and grades link: https://www.newsweek.com/link-between-beauty-and-grades-82085 Ugly laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_law Chapters: 00:00 Examples 01:35 Looks & students 02:04 Is this scientific? 03:22 Looks & adults 04:50 Beauty vs income 06:10 Why does it occur? 09:00 Should this be illegal? 10:50 What can you do about it? 12:45 Key takeaway #futureiq #funfacts