Your blog assumes that professor attractiveness is irrelevant to effectiveness as a teacher. In my experience, as someone who just went through 4 years of undergrad and three years of law school, attractive teachers are often more effective at communicating information. I think your confusing brilliance in a subject matter with ability to engage students in that subject matter. I’m fairly certain that pretty face with a wicked sense of humor and appealing personality made capital gains (Federal Income Tax) a whole lot more palatable for me and my classmates. My point is that attractive professors have an actual advantage in conveying information effectively over their less attractive counterparts. Student evaluations skewed in favor of the “hotties” (which, I think we all need to acknowledge is a relative term that is significantly redefined in academia) probably have some validity w/ respect to teacher effectiveness.