ugly people are people too

if the concept of revealed preference is to be believed*, parents do have favorites - they love their pretty babies more. a new study, where researchers observed parent-child interactions at canadian grocery stores, shockingly found that parents take better care of their more attractive children.

from the new york times:

"Like lots of animals, we tend to parcel out our resources on the basis of value," he said. "Maybe we can't always articulate that, but in fact we do it. There are a lot of things that make a person more valuable, and physical attractiveness may be one of them."

correlations have also been made between attractiveness and intelligence. perhaps parental involvement (or lack thereof) is one factor in this?

*or bastardized...

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