The economics of good looks

Re:The economics of good looks by marze on Friday August 26, 2011 @11:05AM (#2928689)

Current studies show a positive correlation between IQ and looks. If that is true, and it wouldn't be unreasonable to think the same factors that result in good looks also result in a well developed brain, attempts to normalize pay regardless of looks are misguided.

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Re:The economics of good looks by gwern on Friday August 26, 2011 @11:10AM (#2928709)

The correlation between IQ and looks is weak. The correlation between looks and salary? Hm...

I bet the beauty effect remains after controlling for IQ (controls like education are already doing that to a great degree because they correlate much more strongly with IQ than beauty).

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Re:The economics of good looks by thisuser on Friday August 26, 2011 @12:04PM (#2928878)

How well does IQ correlate with intelligence?

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Re:The economics of good looks by VMG on Friday August 26, 2011 @12:21PM (#2928931)

Considering that it is designed to measure intelligence in a way that can be objectively defined, I'd say it correlates pretty good. Can you think of many intelligent people with a low IQ or unintelligent people with a high IQ?

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Re:The economics of good looks by praptak on Friday August 26, 2011 @12:29PM (#2928954)

Intelligence is not defined precisely enough to speak of correlation here. Maybe a better question to consider is: is it fair that salary is correlated with IQ?

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Re:The economics of good looks by chrischen on Saturday August 27, 2011 @01:37AM (#2930882)

If anyone could answer this question with confidence, it'd be 100%.

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