Berkeley business professor Hal Varian reports today that the unthinkable is true: Good-looking people (mainly men) consistently enjoy more professional success than their less physically attractive colleagues.
As if that weren't insult enough to the less-glamorous ranks, the study Varian refers to indicates that more than garden-variety discrimination is at play here; being attractive may actually enable higher productivity.
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Recent Comments | 2 Total
August 28, 2003 at 10:16pm by seth godin
funny, it never worked for me.
August 29, 2003 at 5:13pm by Chris
At some point in my late twenties I finally allowed myself to believe that my hair loss wasn't going to be temporary.... so I ended my relationship with my hair stylist by having her shave my head.
After that I did notice that I was handled differently by the older generations at work. I work at a Japanese-owned company and I noticed this particularly with some of the older Japanese that I worked with at the time.
Sadly, I also noticed that I was no longer carded when I ordered a beer. So, I suppose it was somehow a rite of passage as I was entering my thirties.