Beauty can affect grades. A research study from Lund University draws that conclusion. When beautiful female students were not physically present during the pandemic but participated in digital instruction, grades dropped. The appearance effect was most evident in subjects with a course structure where teachers and students get to know each other in a physical environment. The male students’ study results remained unchanged under the same circumstances. What importance beauty can have on grades, on the other hand, has not been researched as much, and here the pandemic provided a golden study opportunity. In the study, a jury consisting of 74 people of the same age as the 300 participating students had to rate the appearance of the students on a scale of 1-10 based on pictures. In the player above: Adrian Mehic, PhD student at the Lund School of Economics, tells more about the study.
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New research shows: Stylish women lose out – on distance learning
