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Re:Be Healthy or Else: How Corporations Became Obsessed with... by brianwawok on Sunday January 01, 2017 @10:10AM (#13295959)
Isn't that true anyway due to bias? I believe taller men or women with bigger chests make bigger paychecks all else equal. I think in a geek world all paychecks would be determine by work ethic and brain power, but I don't think that's how the world works.
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Re:Be Healthy or Else: How Corporations Became Obsessed with... by codedokode on Sunday January 01, 2017 @10:17AM (#13295982)
That might be true if a woman works as a waitress (and attracts customers to come more often) but I doubt that is important for a software developer.
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Re:Be Healthy or Else: How Corporations Became Obsessed with... by xiaoma on Sunday January 01, 2017 @10:37AM (#13296048)
No, it has a significant impact even on programmers, though less of one than it has on people in sales or customer service: http://timothy-judge.com/Height%20paper--JAP%20published.pdf
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Re:Be Healthy or Else: How Corporations Became Obsessed with... by brianwawok on Sunday January 01, 2017 @10:55AM (#13296094)
Look it up. People with nice faces and certain hair also make more. Humans have a hard time not showing bias in all parts of their life.
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Re:Be Healthy or Else: How Corporations Became Obsessed with... by drewrv on Sunday January 01, 2017 @05:50PM (#13297872)
Maybe it's true due to human psychology but that doesn't mean we should institutionalize it.
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