Comic #4254: hiring-metrics

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Panel 1: "The more scientific a field of study is, the more it is driven by creativity and reason, as opposed to personal charisma."

Panel 2: "Compare, for instance, the attractive early Freudians, once popular in psychology, to the generally paunchy and funny-haired cognitive neuroscientists today."

Panel 3: "Or consider the trajectory in economics, which runs from the dashing David Ricardo to the Yoda-like Milton Friedman. Note: Economists maintained personal attractiveness right up until the point at which Paul Samuelson mathematized the field."

Panel 4: "Fields such as ecology and sociology are in a period of slow uglification that will continue until deeper laws are discovered."

Panel 5: "In this department, we use our knowledge of the 'rigor-repulsion axis' to find the very best professors."

Panel 6: "All right. I get it. You want to hire me for physics."

Panel 7: "Fundamental physics."

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