The Correlation Between Looks & Brains

A professor tells me: “Sometimes I make decisions about whether I like students or not immediately based on their appearance. I do it all the time actually. It’s not that I like the more attractive ones more either. I call it a sixth sense. I just know who’s more likable and I would swear to you that I know who is smart based on appearance. For instance, many students were on my waitlist. I turned most of them away, but then another asked to add today and I liked something about him so I said yes. Just now I received one of the most articulately written emails from him I’ve ever received. I was right.”