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re: how's your appearance?

こんなのもある:

Ugly Criminals

Naci Mocan and Erdal Tekin

(Review of Economics and Statistics 2010)

内容はこんな感じ:

Being very attractive reduces a young adult's propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it. Being very attractive is also positively associated with wages and with adult vocabulary test scores, which implies that beauty may have an impact on human capital formation. The results suggest that a labor market penalty provides a direct incentive for unattractive individuals toward criminal activity. The level of beauty in high school is associated with criminal propensity seven to eight years later, which seems to be due to the impact of beauty in high school on human capital formation, although this avenue seems to be effective for females only.

じょにー・でっぷが犯罪者になることはない....ちが(ry

しかしまぁ,USにいて発展途上国出身の留学生たちとつきあってると,この現象はかなり納得できる。

USに来るような留学生 -> 本国で権力者or金持ち -> おとーさんは美人の奥さんをげっつできる -> 子供の留学生もまた美女orイケメン

というサイクルか。まっぴーのいう,Northwerstern状態もこんな感じなのかも。もちろん,ここで言うcriminalは,贈収賄とか政治犯罪じゃなくて,普通の粗暴犯とかになるけど。

にしても,里谷が二度メダルとれて,上村が一度もとれない理由が,すごく実感できた@女子モーグル