Започнах да си отупвам старите отметки какво трябва да блогна от преди месец…

NYTimes имат хубава статия относно грозното. Какво е грозно и как се приема в наши дни. Интересни препратки към Шрек и към това че хората смятани за грозни получават по-ниски заплати. (Статистика.)

“People who are physically attractive might develop better communication skills because the tendency is that from an early age they get more attention from all their caregivers, including their own mothers onward,” said Tanya S. Rosenblat, an associate professor of economics at Iowa State University, and an author of the 2005 study, “Why Beauty Matters,” published in the American Economic Review. The study tested how volunteers, in the role of employers, rated the ability of “employees” to complete computer mazes. The volunteers predicted that the more attractive employees could complete more of the mazes.

The study authors concluded that because attractiveness has no bearing on the ability to complete computer mazes – unlike a job in which beauty may be an occupational asset like retail sales – discrimination based on looks occurs across occupations.

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Some cities, including Washington, San Francisco and Santa Cruz, Calif., have passed ordinances banning discrimination based on looks. But legal action on behalf of the unattractive can be complicated.