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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: dejabluesdejablues Date: May 17, 2008 22:13
>> Nadya wrote:
>>> I wonder do someone's look influence your perception of their
>>> personality? like, that one is attractive they must be lively, this
>>> one is fat they must have a sense of humor etc.
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>> Well, according to folks wisdom, we're not supposed to judge on
>> appearence yet there's relationships between look and behavior. It was
>> even found that the less attractive the more likely to commit a crime.
>> And whether one is the cause or the consequence, there's defnitive
>> benefits to be attractive and clear disadvantage to be ugly. It is
>> incorrect to make clear distinction between nature and society. Both
>> are ultimately different side of the same phenomena.
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> Well of course we tend to judge on looks but link between criminal
> behavior and ugliness?
The Ugly Face of Crime
By Richard Morin
Friday, February 17, 2006; Page A02
"I'm too ugly to get a job."
-- Daniel Gallagher, a Miami bank robber, after police captured him in 2003
The hapless Mr. Gallagher may have been ugly, but he was also wise.
Not only are physically unattractive teenagers likely to be stay-at-homes on
prom night, they're also more likely to grow up to be criminals, say two
economists who tracked the life course of young people from high school
through early adulthood.
"We find that unattractive individuals commit more crime in comparison to
average-looking ones, and very attractive individuals commit less crime in
comparison to those who are average-looking," claim Naci Mocan of the
University of Colorado and Erdal Tekin of Georgia State University.
Mocan and Tekin analyzed data from a federally sponsored survey of 15,000
high-schoolers who were interviewed in 1994 and again in 1996 and 2002. One
question asked interviewers to rate the physical appearance of the student
on a five-point scale ranging from "very attractive" to "very unattractive."
These economists found that the long-term consequences of being young and
ugly were small but consistent. Cute guys were uniformly less likely than
averages would indicate to have committed seven crimes including burglary
and selling drugs, while the unhandsome were consistently more likely to
have broken the law.
Very attractive high school girls were less likely to commit six of the
seven crimes, while those rated unattractive were more likely to have done
six of seven, controlling for personal and family characteristics known to
be associated with criminal behavior.
Mocan and Tekin aren't sure why criminals tend to be ugly. Other studies
have shown that unattractive men and women are less likely to be hired, and
that they earn less money, than the better-looking. Such inferior
circumstances may steer some to crime, Mocan and Tekin suggest. They also
report that more attractive students have better grades and more polished
social skills, which means they graduate with a greater chance of staying
out of trouble.
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