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Google translated from Swedish:
Beauty can affect grades. A research study from Lund University draws that conclusion. When beautiful female students were not physically present during the pandemic but participated in digital instruction, grades dropped.
The appearance effect was most evident in subjects with a course structure where teachers and students get to know each other in a physical environment. The male students' study results remained unchanged under the same circumstances.
- There have been many studies in the past on how appearance affects salary, especially in the USA, and they have shown that someone who looks good on average has a 10-12 percent higher salary compared to those who look the worst. It's a couple of thousand Swedish kroner a month, so during a working life it has quite a big effect, says Adrian Mehic, PhD student at the Lund School of Economics, who conducted the study.
What importance beauty can have on grades, on the other hand, has not been researched as much, and here the pandemic provided a golden study opportunity.
In the study, a jury consisting of 74 people of the same age as the 300 participating students had to rate the appearance of the students on a scale of 1-10 based on pictures.
- The result was then compared with the students' grades before and during the pandemic and shows that when the beautiful students were not physically present but participated in digital teaching, the grades dropped, says Adrian Mehic, who recently received an article about the study published in the scientific journal Economics Letters.
The fact that the teachers gave the beautiful female students high marks when the teaching was conducted on site is explained by the fact that most of the teachers at the university level are men.
- Then it is reasonable that they mainly discriminate in favor of the attractive women. On the other hand, female teachers also gave the good-looking women higher marks, but not to the same extent. Appearance is associated with something positive and it is difficult to remedy that, says Adrian Mehic.
According to Mehic, it is not a new phenomenon in society that good-looking people are favored.
- This does not only apply to the labor market and when grading, someone who looks good often receives a shorter sentence and is less likely to end up in prison if they are convicted of a crime. Beautiful people are also more often attributed other positive qualities that they don't necessarily have, such as intelligence, he says.
- What is a bit remarkable in this study is that the guys who looked good got better grades even though the teaching was done remotely. It indicates that it is not discrimination that makes them get better grades, but that it is something in their self-confidence and personality, says Adrian Mehic.
Beauty can affect grades. A research study from Lund University draws that conclusion. When beautiful female students were not physically present during the pandemic but participated in digital instruction, grades dropped.
The appearance effect was most evident in subjects with a course structure where teachers and students get to know each other in a physical environment. The male students' study results remained unchanged under the same circumstances.
- There have been many studies in the past on how appearance affects salary, especially in the USA, and they have shown that someone who looks good on average has a 10-12 percent higher salary compared to those who look the worst. It's a couple of thousand Swedish kroner a month, so during a working life it has quite a big effect, says Adrian Mehic, PhD student at the Lund School of Economics, who conducted the study.
What importance beauty can have on grades, on the other hand, has not been researched as much, and here the pandemic provided a golden study opportunity.
In the study, a jury consisting of 74 people of the same age as the 300 participating students had to rate the appearance of the students on a scale of 1-10 based on pictures.
- The result was then compared with the students' grades before and during the pandemic and shows that when the beautiful students were not physically present but participated in digital teaching, the grades dropped, says Adrian Mehic, who recently received an article about the study published in the scientific journal Economics Letters.
The fact that the teachers gave the beautiful female students high marks when the teaching was conducted on site is explained by the fact that most of the teachers at the university level are men.
- Then it is reasonable that they mainly discriminate in favor of the attractive women. On the other hand, female teachers also gave the good-looking women higher marks, but not to the same extent. Appearance is associated with something positive and it is difficult to remedy that, says Adrian Mehic.
According to Mehic, it is not a new phenomenon in society that good-looking people are favored.
- This does not only apply to the labor market and when grading, someone who looks good often receives a shorter sentence and is less likely to end up in prison if they are convicted of a crime. Beautiful people are also more often attributed other positive qualities that they don't necessarily have, such as intelligence, he says.
- What is a bit remarkable in this study is that the guys who looked good got better grades even though the teaching was done remotely. It indicates that it is not discrimination that makes them get better grades, but that it is something in their self-confidence and personality, says Adrian Mehic.
