Comments on: Signaling

By: Lewis Perdue

Lewis Perdue — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:59:13 +0000

This would be why you wore a coat and tie for your Teaching Company lectures?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:54:50 +0000

You only need a suit+tie if you don’t have anything important to say, and so in order to look compelling you need to look nice saying it.

I know some people who prefer to be dressed up, but in fields where it’s easy to tell sense from nonsense, being smartly dressed is no substitute for being smart.

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Reactions to UUC « Entertaining Research — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:10:00 +0000

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By: Bob Solo

Bob Solo — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:38:15 +0000

Forgot to add : The article is on pg. 13 entitled “The Couture of Particle Physics” (see post above)

By: Bob Solo

Bob Solo — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:34:55 +0000

While we are on the subject of clothing, I’d just like to post a link to one of my favorite physics fashion articles :

http://www.fnal.gov/pub/ferminews/FermiNews99-09-03.pdf

You can also find it by googling “fermilab fashion”.

By: eric gisse

eric gisse — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:58:14 +0000

The most dressed up any of my professors get for class is shirt and slacks. If I saw any of them wearing a tie, I’d wonder what the event is.

Hm, that makes me realize something – I have never seen a woman wear a tie. You’d think a tie would be something that works /with/ cleavage.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:28:27 +0000

Perhaps I’ve just had a different experience because the culture here in australia is a bit different (we live 3 inches from the sun and appropriate concessions have to be made) but it’s been my observation, and backed up in discussion with others, that no one of real importance wears a tie unless they’re on TV.

If you own the company, why on earth would you wear something so impractical and uncomfortable? Likewise if you have genuine talent or marketable skills. Even the more important sales people (account managers in companies) generally wear casual clothes, I think it’s almost appreciated because it starts to break down barriers before you even open your mouth.

About the only people I see wearing ties on a regular basis are low-level sales drones (the ones who are trying to sell you luxury items you don’t need) and middle management.

my 2c..

By: Lackey

Lackey — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:41:17 +0000

What’s so wrong with dressing nice? Certainly, one has the freedom to dress however they want, but why make fun of those who do dress nice?

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:54:03 +0000

They’ll make me wear a tie to teach in when they wrap it around my cold, dead neck…

By: Ian Paul Freeley

Ian Paul Freeley — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:11:49 +0000

Whenever I saw an astronomer dressed up, I used to ask who’s funeral they were going to.

I stopped using that joke after someone replied with a name.