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Re:Hacking attractiveness biases in hiring? The role of beau... by faeriechangling on Thursday April 28, 2022 @06:19PM (#31198925)
Prejudice wouldn’t be such an issue if there weren’t a grain of truth in it. Pretty much any superficial indicator that you’ve lived a harder life than average can be used as a way to guess that you might be a worse employee due to some lingering baggage and a less privileged upbringing.

The ugly just sadly don’t have affirmative action to compensate for this sort of thing.

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Re:Hacking attractiveness biases in hiring? The role of beau... by dumpHero2 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @07:50PM (#31199660)
I wasn't prepared for such harsh truth today.
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Re:Hacking attractiveness biases in hiring? The role of beau... by rramadass on Friday April 29, 2022 @08:55AM (#31204480)
The Secret of Success is Sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made - Jean Giraudoux/George Burns (some versions replace Sincerity with Honesty).

People who have been dealt a bad hand by Nature need to be aware of all sorts of cognitive biases (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases) and then find ways to bypass them to focus on their strengths.

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