The Link Between Beauty and Grades | Newsweek Voices - Sharon Begley | Newsweek.com

The Link Between Beauty and Grades | Newsweek Voices - Sharon Begley | Newsweek.com: "If you survived high school, or hope to, you probably made your peace with the fact that life is unfair: looks can compensate for a lack of brains and conscientiousness. Or to put it more bluntly, teachers give good-looking kids higher grades than homely ones, all other factors being equal, as numerous studies have found. The phenomenon is so well documented in science it even has a name: the attractiveness effect."