At 2:09 PM -0600 3/2/01, Linda M. Woolf, Ph.D. wrote:
>Paul Brandon wrote:
>
>> When one (such as I) wears bi/trifocals, one often raises one's head so as
>> to look through the bottom portion of the lens which focuses closely.
>> If one is holding a gradebook and has a student beyond it, I could see
>> where raising one's head to focus on the gradebook could give the
>> appearance of focusing on the student.
>
>Alas, I am also a bifocal wearer and I'm still not sure what this
>professor was trying to read. However, the head tilt to see through the
>bottom part of the lens would (perhaps, at a distance) give the
>impression that one is looking up and not "down the dress". Up close,
>it isn't hard to tell if someone is looking at your chest or making eye
>contact.
The head tilt _could_ make it look like the professor was looking at
something a greater distance from him than the gradebook in his hands (or
whatever).
Since he would not be making eye contact, he might be interpreted as
looking at the student's body.
This is all supposition, of course.
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