Given that attractive people earn higher salaries than average looking people (and tons more than unfortunate looking people), this is no surprise.
Darn it, it is for females only…
A consequence of not enough representations of female professors? LOL.
The males can not have the cake and eat it yoo.
gee wiz you know being so good looking is an albatross around my neck.feel sorry for us beautiful people,you guys do not understand how hard it is!
(sarcasm )
“I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.”
I want to know what how the standard deviation in attractiveness was determined.
They also don’t include anything on how more attractive females are more likely to be sexually harassed by professors either.
@NorthernMom61 Why would they? It’s a study about grades and attractiveness not gender and sexual harassment.
Of course they wouldn’t.
I would say this is because happiness is higher for females perceived most attractive.
People, female especially, perceived to be attractive are also vastly more well-liked by their peers, and ambitiousness is contagious among adapted social females. In short: those perceived to be attractive by most people are generally perceived to be more attractive to their peers, leading to happiness, leading to higher ambition, leading to higher grades.
Even for those without inherent conventions of attractiveness, being social and affable will radiate, causing other to perceive you to be more attractive, among peers and outsiders.
Being perceived to be an unattractive female usually causes bullying and/or depression. This will lead to alienation and lack of motivation to achieve higher ed. The reason this doesn’t apply to men is because attractiveness in males is not nearly as evaluated on basis of looks alone, rather other assets like confidence, sociability, etc. So, grades would not be connected to solely physical attractiveness, it would be determined by individual mental health, something you cannot determine from a photo. I imagine the results for males was much too scattered to determine correlation.
In short I would say this is an issue of happiness and grades, not professors being shallow. Professors, from what I’ve seen, care little about appearance and more about substance of coursework. High school coaches would be the biggest offender of this, if anything. lol.
However, even though the correlation isn’t what I think the article asserts, it’s still a problem. Feminism still matters with the results of this study because attractiveness affects happiness so much in females. It’s kind of sad, honestly. Combination of patriarchy and capitalism.
@NorthernMom61 Attractiveness was evaluated by gathering samples from men and women not related or affiliated with the students.
Maybe there are some benefits to going to a large school and being “just a number” (which I don’t believe but many do) if you’re lower on the attractiveness scale (that makes my skin crawl to type).
It is a truth universally acknowledged that possession of a good fortune is the feature most desirous of a single man.
I have seen claims that both men and women tend to judge women more than men based on personal appearance.
^This was the comment I was going to make. I would bet there is no difference in the student outcome related to appearance between male and female professors.
An acknowledgment of this phenomenon is how some orchestra/symphonies now audition with the candidate behind a screen and gender specific information redacted to the interviewing committees. The performance should have been the sole evaluative criterion but gender biases were discovered.
@T26E4 Was it a male or female bias? Just curious…
From personal experience, I was a lot more dateable, after I got a job and a life. 
…then again, I did shave off the beard, got a haircut, and starting wearing something other than old jeans and t-shirts… L-)
I have read studies on the problems attractive females have in gaining a good mentor. The potential mentors who are male stay away to avoid attraction and any problems that could result- a form of self-control that hurts the female students. They are also concerned with others’ perception, if the work closely with a student. I would bet some professors are even nervous doing office hours with some students.
And female potential mentors are sometimes jealous or competitive. I know for a fact this is an issue in the arts. I have heard the suggestion that a female composer or artist try to find a gay male mentor- and it isn’t really even said as a joke.
I don’t think the .024 gain makes up for other losses.
Also, attractive females are also not really taken as seriously. I don’t think this applies as much to males. Some females who are trying to be taken seriously (and should be) will tamp down their attractiveness, wear sensible clothing, little make up, hair up and so on.