I disagree. I think what is going on is something more like:
Bob is the most attractive guy in his senior class. It helps him win Student Body President. He learns many skills and grows as a person as a result of his experience in the position.
Alice is the most attractive girl in her senior class. It helps her win Homecoming Queen. She gets a crown.
Attractiveness helps women at that moment. It situations where they cannot directly exploit it or their attractiveness fades, the advantage is gone. Men leverage the advantage for self-improvement, creating a persistent benefit that remains even if the attractiveness does not.
tl;dr: "Beauty premium" is transitive without ambition, which skews male.
As others have said, it's also possible that the physical qualities that are attractive in men are considered attractive specifically because they correlate with other qualities. For all we know, jawline and spatial reasoning share a gene somewhere. Human pattern recognition is far better than we give it credit for.
Edit: And now for a completely different angle. Girls are significantly more social than boys. Attractive girls are at the tip of the social hierarchy and, as such, are generally much more invested in it. If "remote learning" also means social isolation, it would be easy to believe that the students most likely to suffer mentally would be the social butterflies. The loner in the library sees no change, but Becky's world is crashing down. Basically, it's an interesting point of data (if true) but drawing any conclusions from it is impossible. Especially not, "muh discrimination!." Focusing solely on instructor interaction is a huge failing of this report.
Here’s my caveat at least: male confidence and social skills aren’t inherently due to attractiveness, but status. Being attractive can help their status and thereby their confidence, but so can being talented, wealthy, or simply raised by someone who understands the value of raising confident sons. You can very easily argue male testosterone levels also vastly influence their social abilities. Female confidence is nearly entirely dependent on their appearance.
Your edit was interesting in the social isolation aspect having a more detrimental effect on attractive women as well. It would make sense they have a more severe impact because they are used to their status being reaffirmed by social interactions.
For all we know, jawline and spatial reasoning share a gene somewhere. Human pattern recognition is far better than we give it credit for.
It's generally been proven that taller, more attractive people loosely correlate with better intellect or soft intelligence proxies. It doesn't even have to be genetic. It stands to reason that a healthy and well cared for childhood that leads to reaching a greater proportion of your potential height, could also potentially lead to you realising a greater degree of your mental potential too.
I disagree. I think what is going on is something more like:
Bob is the most attractive guy in his senior class. It helps him win Student Body President. He learns many skills and grows as a person as a result of his experience in the position.
Alice is the most attractive girl in her senior class. It helps her win Homecoming Queen. She gets a crown.
Attractiveness helps women at that moment. It situations where they cannot directly exploit it or their attractiveness fades, the advantage is gone. Men leverage the advantage for self-improvement, creating a persistent benefit that remains even if the attractiveness does not.
tl;dr: "Beauty premium" is transitive without ambition, which skews male.
As others have said, it's also possible that the physical qualities that are attractive in men are considered attractive specifically because they correlate with other qualities. For all we know, jawline and spatial reasoning share a gene somewhere. Human pattern recognition is far better than we give it credit for.
Edit: And now for a completely different angle. Girls are significantly more social than boys. Attractive girls are at the tip of the social hierarchy and, as such, are generally much more invested in it. If "remote learning" also means social isolation, it would be easy to believe that the students most likely to suffer mentally would be the social butterflies. The loner in the library sees no change, but Becky's world is crashing down. Basically, it's an interesting point of data (if true) but drawing any conclusions from it is impossible. Especially not, "muh discrimination!." Focusing solely on instructor interaction is a huge failing of this report.
Here’s my caveat at least: male confidence and social skills aren’t inherently due to attractiveness, but status. Being attractive can help their status and thereby their confidence, but so can being talented, wealthy, or simply raised by someone who understands the value of raising confident sons. You can very easily argue male testosterone levels also vastly influence their social abilities. Female confidence is nearly entirely dependent on their appearance.
I agree with the additional point that those male testosterone levels also impact physical attractiveness.
Your edit was interesting in the social isolation aspect having a more detrimental effect on attractive women as well. It would make sense they have a more severe impact because they are used to their status being reaffirmed by social interactions.
It's generally been proven that taller, more attractive people loosely correlate with better intellect or soft intelligence proxies. It doesn't even have to be genetic. It stands to reason that a healthy and well cared for childhood that leads to reaching a greater proportion of your potential height, could also potentially lead to you realising a greater degree of your mental potential too.