Are attractive people given unfair advantages in your workplace?

Jonny Thakkar, a lecturer in philosophy and humanities at Princeton University, makes the case at Aeon magazine that ugly people are oppressed.

We don’t choose the configuration of our facial features any more than we choose our skin colour, yet people discriminate based on looks all the time. As the psychologist Comila Shahani-Denning put it, summarising research on the topic in Hofstra Horizons in 2003: ‘Attractiveness biases have been demonstrated in such different areas as teacher judgments of students, voter preferences for political candidates and jury judgments in simulated trials … attractiveness also influences interviewers’ judgments of job applicants.’ From the toddler gazing up at the adult to the adult gazing down at the toddler, we ruthlessly privilege the beautiful. The ugly get screwed.

Today's Question: Are attractive people given unfair advantages in your workplace?

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