[zacharyvoase]

Another funny fact about the 'halo effect' discussed here: when rating individuals for aptitude on a variety of tasks, straight men have a positive bias towards attractive women, whereas straight women have a negative bias towards attractive women (a kind of 'jealousy' phenomenon). This jealousy phenomenon seems less apparent when it's straight men rating men.

[intended]

Or perhaps, women knowing that women often get promoted on their looks, and aware that good looking women tend to have a warped interaction with reality, are doing the right thing by nuking their chances.

There have been several eye opening AMAs on reddit where people had things like gender changes, or went from attractive women to not attractive, and suddenly realizing that they had essentially been in a bubble.

Heck I was just discussing this recently with a Neuro Science PHD student and she had had the same realization - coming in to work one day she needed help carrying stuff, and multiple people volunteered to help along her way. She reached work telling her co-workers that reality was amazing and that her faith in Humanity had been restored.

A colleague pointed out that thats not normal - and asked her what sex all the volunteers were - they were universally male.

Attractive women tend to end up in a bubble of sorts, and it has a distorting impact on their interaction and expectations of normal behavior.

[j45]

These kinds of biases are also interesting and definitely are present everywhere.

[MartinCron]

And yet, people are still so eager to buy in to the (often) self-serving meritocracy myth.

[j45]

Haha, for sure.

I believe in meritocracies, but am well aware that what people do, say, and say they do is often 3 separate continents.

If you have any thoughts on my other post in this thread, I'd be interested to read.