and the point of this research is?

Do pretty people earn more? from cnn

""Good-looking men and women are generally judged to be more talented, kind, honest and intelligent than their less attractive counterparts," Patzer says. "Controlled studies show people go out of their way to help attractive people -- of the same and opposite sex -- because they want to be liked and accepted by good-looking people.""
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"Despite what the research says, some of the world's most successful people have been ordinary looking at best, and you would never mistake the faces in Fortune for those in Esquire or Entertainment Weekly."

i always find it difficult to decide if a person is 'beautiful'(or not) by just looking at them. the personality of a person is so entwined with 'looking good' that i can't separate it. and to tell the truth i do not want to seperate it.