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media type="custom" key="8878384" align="right" So why do beautiful people earn more? According to a study made on the same people as the last British study, the people who are considered attractive also has a higher IQ. The average-looking people's IQ is up to 14 points lower, than the attractive people's. So the theory "pretty equals dumb" is proved wrong. This result is also discovered to be stronger among men. The writer of the article "Beautiful people tend to be smarter--study", writes that one of the reasons why attractive people are smarter, might be because beauty and intelligence is highly heritable. But as one of the commentors conclude, maybe the reason why the attractive people are smarter is just because they are smart, so they know how to dress and make themselves look their best? [|(1)]

media type="custom" key="8878284" align="left"Another reason why the attractive people earn more money, is because people find attractive persons more 'helpful', according to the study. Three groups off people, attractive, normal and unattractive, were judged. 5 percent of the unattractive ones were considered looking helpful, while as many as 38 percent of the attractive ones were judged looking helpful. Among the normal-looking, 18 percent looked helpful, according to the jury. In the same study, a group setting was arranged, and in this setting, the "ugly" people were rewarded more than the attractive ones. [|(2)]

According to the article [|physical attractiveness,] what's considered attractive varies, but the social effects of physical appearance is basically the same all over the world. People in general think highly about beautiful people. This is something even children do. Pretty children get more attention than ugly children, and this makes the pretty ones develop their social skills a lot more than the ugly ones. This means that pretty people in general becomes smarter socially, that they are more extrovert and they usually have a better self esteem and self confidence. [|(3)]

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(1) [] by Jasmine, Jan 2011, read 23.03.2011 (2) [] by Beth Hale, Aug 2007, read 28.03.2011 (3) [] by Wikimedia, Apr 2011, read 05.04.2011