{"id":438,"date":"2003-10-23T22:37:08","date_gmt":"2003-10-24T02:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/10\/23\/lookers\/"},"modified":"2003-10-23T22:37:08","modified_gmt":"2003-10-24T02:37:08","slug":"lookers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/10\/23\/lookers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lookers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a634'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"120\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfai.de\/www_open\/perspg\/g_heinz\/akkam\/Presse\/contents\/PTB\/kugeln_.jpg\" width=\"175\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>File this under &#8220;I&#8217;m getting crabby as the evening wears on&#8221;:<br \/>\nStudy finds that <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/jobs\/2003\/10\/2003101501c.htm\">good looking profs<\/a> get better student evaluations than bow-wow looking ones do.  Doh.  Once again empirical sociology proves beyond a doubt that life is totally predictable.  I suggest handing out bags of balloons and pots of paint with every evaluation form given to students.  That way they can spontaneously decide whether to do anything creative by way of evaluation&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Of course herein we also have a possible answer to the question, <i>why do we appear to be living in an age of narcissism?<\/i>  Because it pays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File this under &#8220;I&#8217;m getting crabby as the evening wears on&#8221;: Study finds that good looking profs get better student evaluations than bow-wow looking ones do. Doh. Once again empirical sociology proves beyond a doubt that life is totally predictable. I suggest handing out bags of balloons and pots of paint with every evaluation form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}