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Description: This is a working paper of a comment that is now available in the American Sociological Review 82(5):1293-1299. The code (but not the data) to reproduce this analysis, as well as my own output, is also available at: https://github.com/AaronGullickson/beautyexchange In this comment, I identify two methodological issues in McClintock’s (2014) article on beauty exchange. First, McClintock’s difference models, which find no evidence of exchange, are poor measures of exchange that fail to account for important confounders and rely upon an overly narrow conceptualization of exchange. Second, McClintock codes her log-linear models to find a difference in the effect of men and women’s beauty in exchange rather than the total effect of women’s beauty, which is both statistically significant and substantively large.