February 17, 2006 8:10 AM
Ugly people/ugly behavior?
Physically unattractive young people are more likely to grow up and become criminals, a University of Colorado economics professor says.
"We find that unattractive individuals commit more crime in comparison to average-looking ones, and very attractive individuals commit less crime in comparison to those who are average-looking," claim Naci Mocan of the University of Colorado and Erdal Tekin of Georgia State University.
I expect to see plastic surgeons use this in their advertising: Avoid a life of crime with a nose job.
February 17, 2006
1:04 PM
Me writes:
I am really good-looking and nothing bad ever happens to me.
February 17, 2006
1:14 PM
Mike writes:
Ugly and stupid maybe!
February 17, 2006
1:14 PM
Dave writes:
I want some of that grant money to come to the same stupid conclusion.
My study will be: Do that ugly people marry ugly people?
That should be worth $500K.
Sounds like a preconceived study.
I'm short, fat, long haired and unattractive. Is my future predetermined by this quack??
February 17, 2006
1:46 PM
Dave writes:
Do a GOOGLE search on this guy. He's dreamed up a lot of off the wall studies. A lot of 'who cares' stuff in my opinion.
Like: The earning capabilities as compared to the length of time in incarceration.
Who cares.
February 22, 2006
11:42 AM
Poopy writes:
How does one determinte "attractive" ? I think you are ugly, but that doesn't mean you are to the people in your ugly family.
February 22, 2006
1:22 PM
dan writes:
I would like to see his methodology. The confusion between reality and perception is a common problem with external indicators. It is well established in research studies that unattractive defendants and lawyers are more likely to lose jury verdicts, but that is because of jury perception, not the reality of the evidence. I suspect that arrests follow the same pattern (everyone has heard the anecdotes of women getting out of tickets by flirting).