Attractive Female Students No Longer Earned Higher Grades When Classes Moved Online During COVID-19

A fascinating consequence of a shift to remote might be the equalisation of aesthetic appeal. This study from the University of Lund tracked student grades correlated with ‘a beauty rating’ and found that positive bias for the better looking disappeared with the shift to remote. Implications for recruiting should be obvious. Accessible summary here, the full study itself is only a 5 pager and downloadable here.