[A]ttractive professors consistently outscore their less comely colleagues by a significant margin on student evaluations of teaching. —Gabriela Montell —Do Good Looks Equal Good Evaluations? (Chronicle)
Thanks for the suggestion, Jim. I mentioned about this article couple days ago in a comment I added to a post about ‘ bad genes,’ but it’s worth repeating as a separate entry.
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