First we heard that ugly people commit more crime. Now we're being told that they're less attentive to their children than attractive people.
"'Unattractive parents are less likely than attractive parents to supervise their children closely,' said Andrew Harrell. He's the same social scientist who took a fair bit of heat last year when he presented evidence suggesting parents pay more attention to attractive children. Now he's onto new findings bound to stir up further familial feelings. 'The unattractive parents may be ugly because they have had economic difficulties, health problems, diabetes, poor eyesight, psychological and physical hardships that distract them,' Harrell offers as an explanation. 'They have their own personal concerns and they have less time to be attentive to their children. They are in such physical and psychological misery they are not there.' He admits his limited data can't prove the theory, since his team never interviewed the parents or children who were observed."
Can you say "junk science"?
Funky Dung
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"The unattractive parents may be ugly because they have had economic difficulties?"
Not having money makes you ugly? Maybe in California, if you can't afford plastic surgery to make you look like a cloned blond floozy. But in Canada? They have socialized medicine, so everybody gets equally bad medical care. They all should be equally ugly.
I was going to suggest that perhaps ugly people don't supervise their children well because ugly parents have ugly kids and don't want to look at them. However, my charming, brilliant, devout, and single daughter is a babe, thus disproving the genetic transmission of ugliness.
Could this be the start of a new Ugly Rights movement?
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Posted 10 Apr 2006 at 3:35 pm ¶Post a Comment