When you're looking at data, how does it affect people? Does it affect people disproportionately? And what are you going to do about that? You put real effort, obviously, into your teaching. When I came to the University of Chicago, I had never taught at all beforeI arrived as an assistant professor. It was completely obvious that in economics, at a research university, my career prospects depended only on my research output.
Talithia Williams thinks you should rigorously track your body's data. She and Steve Levitt trade birth stories and bemoan the state of STEM education.