Life is just not fair. This is further evidenced by this recent article from The Independent, reporting on a new study finding that good-looking children do better in school than their less striking peers.
The research, by Barnard College economist Daniel Hamermesh and colleagues, finds that people whose looks are “one standard deviation above average” attain nearly five more months of schooling than an “otherwise identical average-looking individual.”
For the UK study, attractiveness was assessed by the children’s teachers, who assigned each child to one of four categories: attractive, unattractive, “abnormal feature” or “underfed or scruffy and dirty.”
The studies revealed the same general pattern: better looking children performed better on tests of academic achievement, even when controlling for ethnicity, gender and parents’ education and income.
It seems some people get all the breaks…..
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.