The large-company CEOs were judged more competent looking 55% of the time, with no difference in assessments of the other three facial traits.
After conducting what they bluntly call "beauty contest experiments" involving scores of big-company CEOs, Duke business-school researchers say "competent" looking bosses get paid more regardless of company profitability.
People were significantly more likely to vote for more competent looking male candidates [r (60) = 0.59, p<0.003], and female candidates [r (46) = 0.76, p<0.01].
Until elections in October, a competent-looking caretaker government will run the country, headed by the chief statistician, Jan Fischer.
The New Yorker, June 26 , 1937P. 58 The writer meets her school chum Leila, after many years Leila, a competent-looking matron, is very interested in archery and has won prizes.
In a general sense, we therefore have evidence that these respondents do have a good understanding of what competence means and what a competent party would look like.
Having a complete manuscript and having someone competent look through it and nudge you in the right direction is a huge achievement.
Looks like a competent camera, although these fixed-lens guys are looking less sexy every day as the nicer M4/3 cameras drop in price, with their sexy pancake wide-angle primes.
Only at Lord's, where pace trumped movement, did they look a competent unit.
The baby-faced forward had looked a competent if unspectacular player in three-and-a-half seasons at Palermo, but under Mazzarri he thrived – finding the first coach of his career willing to play him as an out-and-out striker, rather than a deeper-lying forward.
"There's no relationship between how competent people look and how competent they are," says Armstrong.
