"More base"? Really?

::sighs::

What's the name of the effect that observation has on phenomena?

Uh, observer effect?

Tommyrot, those of us who teach noticed that anecdotally years ago. The students perception of your intelligence is inversely related to how high your voice is.

One of my friends from grad school has a really high voice -- like, Minnie Mouse quality -- and it usually took forever for her students to trust that she actually knew what she was talking about. (She usually got assigned to the lower-level classes, though, because she had way more patience for them than the rest of us. She could explain 2+2=4 for an hour, and have a smile on her face the whole time. Nearly all of the rest of us would get too frustrated to continue long before she would.)

I remember (but can't hit the right set of Google terms to call it back up) reading an article by an MTF professor in (memfault) science, who was appalled to overhear remarks in the halls by colleagues gossiping about the new guy and how great his most recent lectures/publications had been, and that he seemed to be a lot smarter than his sister who'd been around the year before.

In case you need some cheering up after Tommyrot's post:

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Baby pygmy hippo!

Really? That's the first comment? Oy

I do not doubt that, JZ. Because people are LITERALLY THE WORST.

I remember (but can't hit the right set of Google terms to call it back up) reading an article by an MTF professor in (memfault) science, who was kind of appalled to overhear remarks in the halls by colleagues gossiping about the new guy and how great his most recent lectures/publications had been, and that he seemed to be a lot smarter than his sister who'd been around the year before.

There was something very similar to that in some articles and a recent memoir written by an MTF English professor at Stern College. (There was a lot of talk about this in the Jewish press, since Stern College is the women's college of Yeshiva University, which is pretty much THE school for Orthodox students who want to get a good religious education as well as a good secular education, and some of them were really not comfortable with a trans professor.)

Wow, that wind map is super cool. I could kinda gaze hypnotically at it all day. But what it tells me is that it's a rare quiet spring day for me, and I need to get outside and put some arrows in a target.

I know I get lots less respect as a teacher, but I'm up against the double, because most people don't respect women as musicians either. And to be honest, my chops aren't nearly what the SO's, for example, are. But I do a lot of encouraging young women to play. When I started guitar lessons, it was a huge freaking deal for me to be female and a guitarist.

And any way, at this point, I know I'm a good teacher, so screw 'em if they can't figure that out eventually.

I HAZ THE CODEINE!

Also, azithromycin.