{"id":380,"date":"2005-07-09T04:13:49","date_gmt":"2005-07-09T09:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=380"},"modified":"2005-07-09T04:13:49","modified_gmt":"2005-07-09T09:13:49","slug":"fact-and-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"Fact – and Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNN and CareerBuilder.com published a story <\/a>yesterday about yet another research study – this one, by econ professors Daniel Hamermesh of the University of Texas and Jeff Biddle of Michigan State University – that proves, once again, the advantage that good-looking people have in the workplace, or maybe it’s more the disadvantage the rest of us mere mortals haul around like a dead carcass.<\/p>


\nThis study pegs the penalty of homeliness at 8-18% of pay.
\nA similar study from London Guildhall University of 11,000 33-year-olds found that unattractive men earned 15 percent less than those deemed attractive, while plain women earned 11 percent less than their prettier counterparts<\/em>.
\nThe story references several other research papers:
\n– short stature costs workers $789 a year per inch in pay;
\n– the difference in starting salaries for college grads is a full 12% between the tallest and the shortest; and
\n– in the London Guildhall study, overweight women get hit with a 5% pay reduction.
\nThe story than goes on to quote largely unnamed “hiring managers” who refute all this with the glib advice that self-confidence and a spiffy wardrobe overcome all.
\nOf course, rather than discourage us from buying this load, they offer nary a shred – not even the requisite scintilla – of evidence to back up “their” claim.
\nI’d like to follow their inestimable advice, I really would, but I’m too busy with my royal duties as Marie of Roumania.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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