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Oct 03 2007 12:00am EDT

The Better You Look, The More You See

It seems that Bret Easton Ellis was on to something when he invented Patrick Bateman:

For men, every extra 10 minutes daily grooming increases their weekly wages by 6 percent.

Interestingly, the effect is much smaller for women: there really isn't any need to spend lots of hours and dollars straightening your natural black hair.

The full paper, by Jayoti Das and Stephen DeLoach, is here.

(Via Alea)


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