ARNOLD KLING
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The Top Political Contributors
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Gender and the New Commanding Heights
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Jamie Galbraith Makes an Assumption
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Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris
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Real and Nominal Bond Yields
BRYAN CAPLAN
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The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
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The Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
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Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
August 11, 2011
The Theory of Time and Frittering
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Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
August 9, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
August 8, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken"
August 5, 2011
James Bovard on the Peace Corps
August 4, 2011
Summers Way Off on FDR and 1941
August 3, 2011
The "Amazon" Tax
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This seems plausible, but I wonder if part of the effect is attractiveness serving as a proxy for intelligence/mental stability:
www.brandeis.edu/departments/psych/Leslies%20pdf/Zebrowitz,%20Hall..2002.pdf
But the link is to a toll-access copy. A copy that you could actually read is on the web at
http://www.iza.org/conference_files/TAM2005/tekin_e527.pdf
What I'd like to know is (a) who pays for useless studies like this and (b) who actually has the time to read and think about useless studies like this.
Attractive people.
Good one, Scheule!
I find that this information makes the criticism of Ayn Rand more pointed. It's not good to find that Ayn Rand is strengthening a prejudice against unattractiveness.
Also, I think it hurts her story artistically. I am distracted by the thought that the reason Howard Roark and Dominique Francon are attracted to each other is that they like sex with attractive people, not because they find each other to be philosophical ideals.
Anyway, Peter Keating is another counter-example. He's attractive but intellectually empty. Mike is another counter-example; he's ugly yet admires Roark.