🧵 STEMcel resentment

Anonymous at Thu, 23 May 2024 18:44:36 UTC No. 16189871

>In Science, Good Looks Don't Pay, Study Finds
https://www.livescience.com/59209-scientists-attractiveness-perceptions.html
A study found that good looking scientists were seen as LESS COMPETENT that their ugly and average looking counterparts.

Why is this? In every other field, good looks pay. This is obviously especially true in sports, cinema and politics (apparently Trudeau keeps getting elected thanks to women lol).
Even in law this is the case
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/good_looking_lawyers_make_more_money_researcher_says
As well as in banking
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12182271/Good-looking-bankers-earn-1M-careers-attractive-counterparts.html
And in executive positions
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148619522000510

Research has shown that employers expect better looking workers to be more competent, but in STEM fields this is the opposite. Why?