[xkxx]

> Human judges give ugly people twice the sentences of attractive people. Judges have been shown to give significantly harsher sentences just before lunch, when they are hungry.

It would be nice if you could provide sources for these claims.

[jacquesm]

It took only 10 seconds of googling to come up with this:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lunchtime-lenienc...

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/study-ugly-people-more-like...

[soundwave106]

The lunch statistic probably came from this study: http://www.economist.com/node/18557594 http://www.pnas.org/content/108/17/6889

(To be fair, the study size was small).

There's a study on attractiveness and juror bias here (it's more complicated than just "ugly people get worse sentences" but some bias does show up for certain juror personality types): http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bsl.939/abstract

[sjg007]

If there is ever a dress for success time it is when you are in court.

[CountHackulus]

Here's the paper for the just before lunch claim: http://www.pnas.org/content/108/17/6889