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Lookism sentences to ponder
2025-10-10 16:03 UTC by Tyler Cowen

Despite there being no systematic age differences between women and men in the workforce according to the US Census, we found that women are represented as younger than men across occupations and social roles in nearly 1.4 million images and videos from Google, Wikipedia, IMDb, Flickr and YouTube, as well as in nine language models trained on billions of words from the internet. This age gap is the starkest for content depicting occupations with higher status and earnings.

Here is the full paper, by Benjamin Thompson and Nick Howe.  Note that even AOC’s apology to Miller is full of indirect lookism.  Via the excellent Kevin Lewis.

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