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Re:Hacking attractiveness biases in hiring? The role of beau... by hammock on Friday April 29, 2022 @01:00AM (#31201618)
>There's a lot of data out there showing that attractiveness, fitness (as in, not obese), and tallness are all massive biases in the workplace -- much bigger in many studies than biases around gender and ethnicity even.

Not only are they biases, there is some data that shows attractiveness, height, etc actually correlate with competency. It might be a true stereotype (self-fulfilling or not).

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Re:Hacking attractiveness biases in hiring? The role of beau... by cafeoh on Friday April 29, 2022 @04:40AM (#31202833)
Quite naturally I would imagine it makes you more competent in every role where you can be discriminated on those basis (customer-facing, or any job that's heavy on communication). Could make sense for the social worker role, less so for the IT specialist, but I'd be interested to know your source.
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Re:Hacking attractiveness biases in hiring? The role of beau... by autoexec on Friday April 29, 2022 @09:56AM (#31205130)
I'm hoping he comes up with a source too, but I imagine that the people we're all naturally biased toward generally get evaluated in the most favorable light so it'd be weird if there wasn't some data that showed they were more competent.
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