A for attractive: Good-looking female college students saw their grades DROP during Covid pandemic 'when professors couldn't see their faces', study claims
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Very interesting, particularly because it wasn't deliberate.Attractive females saw their grades drop when classes and exams moved online during the pandemic, a study suggests.
Adrian Mehic, a post-doctoral researcher at Lund University, analyzed the scores of 300 male and female engineering students in Sweden before and after Covid hit.
A panel of more than 70 separate participants was asked to grade the attractiveness of each student based on photographs of their faces.
The study found a significant decline in average college grades among attractive female students — but only in 'qualitative' courses where teachers and students were more likely to interact.
These include classes like business and economics, where exams and coursework are graded subjectively.
In quantitative courses — like math and physics — where answers are usually simply correct or incorrect, the same trend was not observed. There was also no trend among males.
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