In a 2005 experiment modeling the hiring process, would-be employers were ready to give 10.5% higher salaries to attractive candidates over unattractive ones.
Similarly, according to a paper on the 2018 congressional midterms, good-looking candidates are more likely to get elected.
Psychologists call it the "beauty premium." Essentially, the income gap between attractive and unattractive people is comparable to the gap between genders or ethnicities.
Interested in other ways this double standard manifests, Redditor u/Routine_Astronaut182 posted a question on r/AskReddit, saying: "What's something attractive people can do that ugly people can't?" and it blew up. Here are some of the most popular replies it has received.
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#24
Not get called a creep or weirdo for flirting or trying to chat to someone.
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#25
Get away with stuff. Cut line, talk their way out of a speeding ticket. Get hired.
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#26
I’ve noticed that people are more patient with my stutter. My sisters boyfriend is… not conventionally attractive and he stutters too. Some people just outright ignore him. [go away] me off that double standard exists.
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#27
Treating people poorly or just being generally unpleasant to be around but yet not be ostracized from social groups and having people put up with their s**t
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#28
They can be a******s and get away with It. Oh and they are allowed to be stupid. Their pretty faces Will make up for that
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#31
I was attractive once. I could get away with anything. Literally. I shoplifted from a store once and a lady officer saw me, followed me outside, questioned me, we bulls**ted for a while. I joked that I was terrible at crime. She laughed and let me go with a warning.
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#32
I'd say I'm an 7/10. If I go out with friends that are 9s, they give the cheerleader effect where I suddenly get perceived as a 9 also. Works great for me. Get free entry, cheap or free drinks, etc. This does not work the other way around. If I go out with a friend that's say 5/10,. my 7/10 isn't enough to bring the cheerleader effect, but their 5 doesn't seem to affect my 7... if that makes sense
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