Research confirms: Attractive people get the breaks

Research confirms: Attractive people get the breaks
Discrimination on the basis of physical appearance is real. What to do about it is less clear.
By Bryan Schonfeld and Sam Winter-LevyUpdated March 10, 2021, 1:00 a.m.
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Brett Favre won a Super Bowl and three MVP awards, but his earnings may also have been boosted by his appearance. According to a study by economist David Berri and colleagues, Favre had the most symmetrical face of all NFL starting quarterbacks in 2007.Morry Gash
In the 19th century, numerous US cities banned public appearances by people deemed “unsightly.” An 1867 San Francisco law, for example, prohibited “any person, who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or in any way deformed, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object . . . [from] exposing himself or herself to public view.” Similar laws — known as “ugly laws” — were on the books in cities including Chicago, Denver, and Omaha.

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