Physical appearance
Other biases in PRs are subtler. “Common
sense” argues that physical attractiveness is
not likely to influence PRs, because “beauty is
in the eye of the beholder” and anyway should
not influence behaviour in the workplace. In
fact there is a very reliable broad consensus
about who is and who is not good-looking,
and strong evidence that appearance does
affect PRs. Two separate researches[5,6] find
a strong link between attractiveness – rated on
a five-point scale – and later salary level. Both
find that each extra scale point of rated attractiveness is “worth” $2,000-2,600 more in
salary. This implies that the salary difference
between the most and least attractive could be
as great as $13,000. The effect is far stronger