Angela Ekanem
Economics
Mr. Weaver
12 February 2013 Makeup and Its Direct Ties to the Job Market
There was a study done by Professor Etcoff and others at Boston University and the DanaFarber Cancer Institute, paid for by Procter & Gamble, who sell CoverGirl and Dolce & Gabbana makeup. They study was done to see how people reacted to women when they first saw them. The control group was 119 different adults where they were given unlimited time to look at the women with or without their makeup on and judge their appearance. The experimental group had forty-nine adults judge women for 250 milliseconds, ‘enough time to make a snap judgment.’ according to the New York Times article written on it. The article came to the conclusion that make up increases the chance that a person will get hired depending. Also that in reality and as much as some people may hate it, yes, some persons do get treated differently or better because of the way they look. In this situation, we would have the makeup and the increase of jobs on the chart. With and increase on jobs we would most likely have an increase on makeup worn to interviews and on the job as well. By doing this an employer would be making a trade-off of a better business or more money coming in from that employees work. A trade-off is something that a person, business of even government system has to give up because they cannot have both. This is not to say that all attractive people are not intelligent, but an employer may be giving up a better fit prospective employee for an attractive one. Capital is something that is human made that helps to provide goods and services. This is an essential factor of