We had a seminar recently from an experimental economist out of the University of Chicago. He has done a variety of cool things using field experiments. Let me mention the one he presented. The experiment involved sending people door to door to do fund raising for a (real) charity. The fundraisers (who were college students) were paid $10\/hour. <\/p>\n
Men averaged about $9\/hour in donations. There was little correlation between their productivity and their appearance.
\nPretty women got about $17\/hour in donations.
\nI think Not Pretty women got something close to the guys.<\/p>\n
The Pretty Woman effect on fund raising was entirely driven by higher donations when a man answered the door. They were more likely to contribute, although the size of the contribution was about the same. <\/p>\n
I hereby ask ya’ll to find a plausible tie-in to Mormonism so that I can post this on T&S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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