Attractive students no longer receive better results as classes moved online
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HN comment orderPeople that have used to be fat, and then lost a lot of weight, will know how brutally different people will treat you. Whereas you'd practically be a ghost before weight loss, random people will suddenly look you in your eyes, smile, even start conversations with you. Some will of course argue that you losing weight will also make you more confident, and thus you become more approachable. I think there's a lot of bias against fat people, against "unattractive"…
Could you please stop rewriting article titles in baity, editorialized ways? As commenters have pointed out, the way you editorialized this one has essentially ruined the thread. Worse, you've been doing it repeatedly (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32880519). We take submission privileges away from accounts that do this. It's against the site guidelines, which ask you to "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."…
A weak and unreliable correlation holding only in parts of the dataset. A classic example of junk research.
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 475
- Total comments
- 594
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-08-09 | Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching | elsewhen | 16 | 5 |
| 2022-09-17 | Attractive female students get better gradesFirst breakout | ibobev | 96 | 75 |
| 2024-12-01 | Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching (2022) | walterbell | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-03-23 | Attractive students no longer receive better results as classes moved onlineBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | jdthedisciple | 360 | 514 |