That appears to be borne true by a research done by Naci Mocan of the University of Colorado and Erdal Tekin of Georgia State University.
They surveyed 15,000 high-schoolers in 1994 and again in 1996 and 2002. One question asked interviewers to rate the physical appearance of the student on a five-point scale ranging from “very attractive” to “very unattractive.”
Highlights:
- Cute guys were uniformly less likely than averages would indicate to have committed seven crimes including burglary and selling drugs, while the unhandsome were consistently more likely to have broken the law.
- Very attractive high school girls were less likely to commit six of the seven crimes, while those rated unattractive were more likely to have done six of seven,
Reasons?
It is not not surprising that other studies have found that unattractive men and women are less likely to be hired.
Via The Washington Post
