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A recent study on worker attractiveness finds that there is a large 'beauty pay premium' for jobs that require significant interpersonal interaction, although not for jobs that primarily require working with data.
Welcome to the beauty pay gap. A gap, another one, that shows that the reasons, biases and heuristics that we use to value others at work are endless and that, possibly, Eliminating them would mean significantly reducing freedom..
Jungle of biases
This shows, once again, that employers discriminate. Another thing is that we consider that this discrimination is positive, negative, inevitable or avoidable, which already enters the political, almost philosophical, and also deontological field..
What seems evident is that discrimination is the only way to choose: faced with two identical resumes, one must choose something that inclines one towards one or another employee…which can even lead to in discriminating based on skin color: For example, if you open a restaurant with African cuisine, having black waiters may be preferable for the employer if they consider that it will increase their profits.
The time has passed when phrenologists and physiognomists inferred the characteristics of human beings from the protuberances of the skull or facial features. However, andThis has not eliminated our innate tendency to judge others by the type of face they have.. That's why villains usually look evil. That is why in the courts of law, lThose who have facial defects tend to be convicted more easily by popular juries.
Although an individual's personality is full of nuances and we will rarely be able to decipher it in a few personal interactions, we tend to consider the face as aa kind of Rosetta stone that will decode the entire inner universe of an unknown person.
All in all, this is a complex, protracted topic, full of sharp edges like the thorns of a rose like the one that guarded the Beast, so you can dive into its deep multifactorial consequences in the following video:
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The wage gap that no one talks about: the beauty gap
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Se trata del décimo proyecto del gigante asiático que alcanza la fase de ensayos en humanos
A team of astronomers who have carefully studied archival data from 2010 from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope maintain that Jupiter not only has the 79 moons that have been detected so far, but many more: at least 600 irregular moons more than a kilometer in diameter.
That telescope has a powerful digital camera called MegaCam. It is a 340-megapixel wide-field imager that sees in optical and near-infrared. The authors will present their findings at the Virtual Europlanet 2020 Scientific Congress.
jovian moons
But what is the difference between regular and regular moons? If regular moons are formed by the accumulation of material in a disk (like planets) The irregular ones are objects captured by the planet's gravity, which on Jupiter is nothing to sneeze at.
That is, unlike Jupiter's largest moons, such as Io, Europa and Ganymede, these irregular moons were not formed by accumulating material in a disk.
Its capture may have been due to "gas entrainment, falling due to sudden mass growth, and three-body interactions."
The team of astronomers found 52 objects in their images that they identified as irregular moons, and then they estimated the figure of 600 by simple extrapolation. The objects had magnitudes up to 25.7, and that corresponds to objects with diameters of approximately 800 meters. Of those 52, seven of the brightest were already known irregular moons.
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A new study estimates that orbiting Jupiter there would be about 600 moons (all larger than a kilometer)
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Xataka Science
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Sergio Parra
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According to him WWF Living Planet Report 2020 (World Wide Fund for Nature), Wild animal populations have fallen by two thirds since 1970. Specifically, 68% in global populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish between 1970 and 2016.
Freshwater wildlife have also suffered a decline of 84%, the steepest average population decline in any biome, equivalent to 4% per year since 1970.
The principal cause
The main factor in this animal loss is due to our diet.: We need a lot of land to produce food, which results in habitat loss and degradation, including deforestation.
That is, to solve the problem, drastic measures must be taken, both in the way we eat and manage food, as well as invest more in the protection of certain environments.
The Living Planet Index (LPI), provided by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) tracked almost 21,000 populations of more than 4,000 vertebrate species between 1970 and 2016. As Gun explains Tim Newbold, from the UCL Biodiversity and Environment Research Center (University College London):
Changing land use, whether for agriculture, energy, transport or housing, has a profound impact on biodiversity, as many plants and animals can no longer survive in an environment, and the remaining wild nature may not be large enough to support a species. This is now affecting the composition of plants and animals, as generalist species are better able to survive while more specialized species become extinct.
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Global animal populations have declined by an average of two-thirds in less than half a century.
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Xataka Science
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Sergio Parra
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