Attractive female students’ grades dropped during remote learning: Study
Pretty privilege?
Female college students who happen to be aesthetically pleasing earned lower grades during the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent study found.
So the looks of a female (and not her mind) effected her grades?
A panel of more than 70 separate individuals was asked to rate the attractiveness of each student.
Mehic found a significant decline in the average grades of the “attractive” female students, but only in courses where teachers and students were more likely to interact.
No flirting privilege with the instructors to up their scores? Boo hoo hoo
The “non-quantitative” courses include business and economics where exams and assignments are graded subjectively.
However, the effect was not found for “quantitative” courses like math and physics.
When one has to interact, attractive people score better, but when your grade is based on WHAT you do/results, attractive people did not have an advantage.
“In economics research, lots of attention is given to discrimination based on gender and/or race. While these are important issues, there has not been much research on beauty-based discrimination in the educational setting, so the paper fills a gap there.”
In a social situation, people would rather be around attractive people.
He added: “Also, the pandemic made discrimination based on appearance much more difficult, since teachers could not readily see students’ faces. Whereas discrimination on for instance gender is possible in the online setting also, as long as you have the names of students.”
In other words, where everything is in a NEUTRAL setting, attractive people do NOT get an advantage over others. How nice!
“The main takeaway is that there is a beauty premium both for males and for females when teaching is on-site, but for females, this effect disappeared when teaching was conducted online,” Mehic explained.
Females do better when they can use their attractiveness? Why is that?
He added that determining why people discriminate based on appearance is a difficult task and more research needs to be done, but he hypothesized, “Probably, it’s because when we see an attractive person, we assign them some characteristics that they may not actually possess, such as intelligence.”
We can look at hollywood and celebrities. Alot of them would be classified as “attractive”, but when they open their mouths when not reading a script for a movie/show/song/etc, boy are they DUMB! IMO.
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