Honestly, I almost wish they would stop releasing these studies, it's like "I get it, if you're ugly, not only is it harder to get a date, but you'll get paid less, be less likely to get promoted, get rated as less productive/smart/etc., and if you get caught doing a crime you'll get a much longer jail sentence."

Thanks, being ugly sucks, we know.

Ask any girl and they will say that people who wants to be friends with them greatly depends on the current attractiveness of her. I think it is less true for males, but nonetheless I feel like there is correlation.

Women notice it more because women have much higher day to day variance in current attractiveness, due to makeup and fashion.

I think males are subjected to the same appearance biases, but it's not necessarily pure attractiveness. Height and size, for example.

I still think the effect of attractiveness on female-female friendship is much much more than male-male friendship. I don't know if there is some known theory or reason for it, but you can see in a group of female friends, the attractiveness level is in similar range more often than not(of course speaking from anecdotes, nothing to prove).

I would love to see a double blind study on attractiveness and job interviews, but this would be pretty hard to do (facial prosthetics?) Response rate of identical resumes with different portrait photos attached would be interesting.

Can we make attractiveness a protected class?

I recall seeing an experiment shown on a news program with 2 different teachers in a young (like 1st grade or so) class. One of the teachers (they were actually both actors) was conventionally very attractive, the other very plain (I always thought "How's that for an acting job: yay, I got the role of ugly teacher.")

The thing is, with kids that young, they were very transparent about their feelings toward the attractive teacher "She's so pretty! She's so nice! I really liked her." It was classic halo effect stuff.