if you've had trouble hailing a cab, this might be why

Oh dear. It turns out that ugly people commit more crime. And average people commit more crime than really hot people.

I wonder if it's the effect of growing up attractive or ugly that does it, or one's current attractiveness. For instance, would a hot person who had always been hot commit less crime than a person who grew up ugly and then got hot later in life?

Would you be committing acts of discrimination if you started crossing to the other side of the street when you saw an ugly person walking towards you?

Or maybe it's articles like this that drive ugly people towards crime.