(The coders controlled for presenters' gender and attractiveness along with the size of the market the start-ups were addressing). Among both VCs and entrepreneurs, conventional wisdom holds that "passion" is a positive attribute, connoting high energy, persistence, and commitment.
If women were no longer expected to stay at home or were no longer seen as sexual objects, the jobs that are specifically aimed at attractive women (cocktail waitressing, sexual roles in tv and film, etc) would be opened up to men and more women would be willing to venture into the job world if the opportunities were based on skill rather than gender or attractiveness.
Before arriving for the scan session, each participant provided three digital pictures of his or her romantic partner, and three pictures of an acquaintance of the same gender and attractiveness as the romantic partner.
Usually, to assess implicit social cognition, participants perform an apparently irrelevant task (e.g. judging the gender or attractiveness of a person) during collection of an indirect measure such as eye movement, reaction times or neural responses.
● Student teaching evaluations may be influenced by factors that have nothing to do with effectiveness, such as the gender, ethnicity, and attractiveness of the instructor.
Responses to general questions, such as overall effectiveness, are particularly influenced by factors unrelated to learning outcomes, such as the gender, ethnicity, and attractiveness of the instructor.
Researchers presented each pitch in four ways to examine the effects of both gender and also attractiveness.
The latter study examines the role of gender and facial attractiveness on China's Internet job board labour market.
Researchers have found that an entrepreneur's gender and physical attractiveness greatly influence investor backings, where good-looking men are more persuasive and 36% more likely to be successful than unattractive men, according to The Telegraph.
Let me rephrase: for all that the so-called "model minority" has made gains in educational attainment, income level, or public regard in the United States, we have done shockingly little to proactively cast away antiquated beliefs on gender and physical attractiveness -- the kind of beliefs that kept women's feet bound until the early 20th century.
