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I don't believe this study. The correlation with beauty is too small to be believable. 1.5-2% per standard deviation of beauty? That's nothing.

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Rather, this could be explained by there being a positive correlation between beauty and other, not-necessarily-hidden characteristics of a candidate.

I assume the study didn't control for virtues of the candidates, such as intelligence, health, and optimism.

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