Attractiveness of female students affects their level of academic performance

Researchers at the American Metropolitan University in Denver in the course of their work found that attractiveness of female students affects their academic performance: prettier girls tend toget better scores than their less attractive peers.

Professors Ray Hernandez-Julian and Christina Peters conducted a case study of 6,777 female students who were female students between 2006 and 2011, combining photographs from their student IDs with grades. A total of 168,092 evaluations were analyzed.Independent project participants - people who have nothing to do with the university, of different ages, gender and race - rated the attractiveness of girls on a scale from 1 to 10.

Summing up, the researchers found that female students,those who received high scores on the attractiveness scale also had higher academic performance scores.At the same time, the ratings of less pretty girls were an order of magnitude lower.So, one of the assumptions of the experiment was the idea that external attractiveness is evidence of internal qualities.Neat and well-groomed girls are more attentive to detail and more disciplined.

However, after examining online courses where the teacher does not even see the students, the researchers found that pretty girls tended to get lower grades. Thus, the main conclusion of the study was the following statement: the point is not that teachers are more supportive of beautiful girls, but that during their studies they unconsciously spend more attention on the attractive part of the audience, and as a result, such girls receive moreknowledge and show high results in exams.So in some cases, appearance can actually affect a student's GPA.

Original study: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/01/05/new-study-finds-women-who-are-not-considered-attractive-receive-lower-grades