Publisher's Weekly (fwd)

[Sojourner]

At 08:20 AM 8/14/97 -0700, the Robot Vegetable wrote:

>	There was a story on public radio last night reporting on
>a research project done on if attractive people are more successful.
>Their results said that they were.  They make more money, and the
>companies they work for are also more successful.  I felt this was
>intuitively likely, although I have many doubts.  Then my biggest doubt
>raised itself from their study group: advertising executives.  They used
>this group because there were pictures available for them over a
>twelve year period.  It seems to me that picking an industry whose
>success depends on being attractive begs the issue.
>	There was no mention made of this potential difficulty,
>which makes me think that the researchers were biased from the start.

Yes.. which ties in nicely with my earlier statement about what research
is and isn't reporter in the mainstream press (and I mean what is/isn't
PROMOTED in reality) and how we tend to listen more to the news
and less to the journals themselves.

>	Fame works on a local level.  I think most people still
>live in the small 100 person tribe, and base their actions on this.
>	I grew up watching famous people shot.
>

Yes this is evidently true, and yet, we have no college departments
to study this do we?  Strange isn't it?