Beautiful Minds
Invisible Adjunct,
Jul 29, 2003
Via Kairosnews, this link points to an interesting discussion of the (possible) correlation between a teacher's looks and the evaluations given by the class. Writes the Invisible Adjunct, cynically, "Hamermesh believes that 'in a strictly economic sense,' this may not be unfair: 'If students pay more attention to good-looking instructors and thus learn more from them, then professorial beauty could have a 'productivity effect,' Hamermesh said.' I'm not quite sure what Hamermesh means by 'strictly economic.' He seems to rely on the very dubious assumption that the higher a student's evaluation of a professor, the more that student has learned." Great read.
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