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Beauty and the Geek

Maybe good looks do make you smarter.

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The electorate was surely the most rational in the world: the membership of the American Economic Association.

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Tim Harford is a Financial Times columnist. His latest book, The Logic of Life, will be published in paperback on Feb. 10.

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