I think even besides the just world hypothesis, there’s a statistical thing at work in the blondes example, which has a name that I am totally unable to find right now.
If you imagine (just as a simple example) that most people you interact with regularly are people providing services to you commercially, who therefore have jobs; and that further, getting a job requires one to be a strong applicant on one of various axes (e.g. a more attractive person can get a job with less intelligence, and vice versa), then you will find those things inversely correlated (spuriously) in the population of job-havers, due to a selection effect with a name I can’t remember.
I think even besides the just world hypothesis, there’s a statistical thing at work in the blondes example, which has a name that I am totally unable to find right now.
If you imagine (just as a simple example) that most people you interact with regularly are people providing services to you commercially, who therefore have jobs; and that further, getting a job requires one to be a strong applicant on one of various axes (e.g. a more attractive person can get a job with less intelligence, and vice versa), then you will find those things inversely correlated (spuriously) in the population of job-havers, due to a selection effect with a name I can’t remember.
EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox
I’ve bookmarked the link, and I’ll read it at my leisure. I may update the article to include the information from the link at that point in time.