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General Interest => Open Free for All => Topic started by: Anonymous on February 17, 2006, 12:34:00 PM
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 39_pf.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/16/AR2006021602039_pf.html)
The Ugly Face of Crime
By Richard Morin
Friday, February 17, 2006; A02
"I'm too ugly to get a job."
-- Daniel Gallagher, a Miami bank robber, after police captured him in 2003
The hapless Mr. Gallagher may have been ugly, but he was also wise.
Not only are physically unattractive teenagers likely to be stay-at-homes on prom night, they're also more likely to grow up to be criminals, say two economists who tracked the life course of young people from high school through early adulthood.
"We find that unattractive individuals commit more crime in comparison to average-looking ones, and very attractive individuals commit less crime in comparison to those who are average-looking," claim Naci Mocan of the University of Colorado and Erdal Tekin of Georgia State University.
Mocan and Tekin analyzed data from a federally sponsored survey of 15,000 high-schoolers who were interviewed 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."
These economists found that the long-term consequences of being young and ugly were small but consistent. 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, controlling for personal and family characteristics known to be associated with criminal behavior.
Mocan and Tekin aren't sure why criminals tend to be ugly. Other studies have shown that unattractive men and women are less likely to be hired, and that they earn less money, than the better-looking. Such inferior circumstances may steer some to crime, Mocan and Tekin suggest. They also report that more attractive students have better grades and more polished social skills, which means they graduate with a greater chance of staying out of trouble.
© 2006 The Washington Post Company
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Who funds these useless studies?
One question asked interviewers to rate the physical appearance of the student on a five-point scale ranging from "very attractive" to "very unattractive."
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :lol: :lol:
Geezus, that was funny!
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Next, some pharm giant will hawk a drug targeted at ugly kids to save us all from their criminal tendencies. Practitioners can compare the kid against computer models to determine which are indeed ugly and who could benefit from the drug.
Or maybe RTCs for ugly kids, as a preventive. :lol:
But, never under any circumstance, should we look at the morals and values of this culture. Just silence those who end up on the short end of the stick.
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Instead of meds for ugliness we should compensate the homely for plastic surgery to make eye candy available to all.
It is commonly known that good looking people slide
through life, while the ugly work in food service.
A logical anti medication solution is this. Make people better looking and the need for Viagra will go away!
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On 2006-02-17 11:21:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Instead of meds for ugliness we should compensate the homely for plastic surgery to make eye candy available to all.
It is commonly known that good looking people slide
through life, while the ugly work in food service.
A logical anti medication solution is this. Make people better looking and the need for Viagra will go away!"
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Yeh, what's that show, 'Make over' or something? With enough money anyone can be transformed into a beautiful princess or handsome prince.
[ This Message was edited by: Deborah on 2006-02-17 16:14 ]
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Hey, great idea.
Put the criminal prevention make overs
on tv and pay for them with entertainmnet
revenues.
How many ugly makeovers are needed in the US?
:???:
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there might be some truth to this...
(http://http://the_real_pindar.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/ugly3.jpg)