But does beauty influence our judgement in accordance with the correlation, or disproportionally so? It may be for example that ugly people are 10% more likely to commit crimes, 200% more likely to be villains in the movies, and 100% more likely to get flagged as suspects by the prosecutor, or get other massive penalty before you even think consciously about it.
Without looking at evidence I would guess disproportionately so.
Here are the New York Times, CNN, and NBC. Here is Wikipedia for background.
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