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I enjoyed imaging the abstract being read aloud by Elizabeth Holmes with her clownish deep voice she worked to portray in the later stages of her fraudulent career. It's funny how these perceptions and findings sometimes line up.

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Yes, Elizabeth Holmes was a fraud. But choosing to lower your voice to have a more commanding presence does not seem fraudulent not particularly "cartoonish" to me. Regardless of ones feelings towards Margaret Thatcher's policies, Thatcher was most definitely not fraudulent, and her lowering her voice was almost a virtual necessity in her political era.

I think part of the problem is that Holmes's voice sounded artificial. To be effective, generally speaking, you would imagine the voice couldn't sound like you were trying to speak with a deep voice. (But surely studies have been done on this. Does it matter?)

But I agree with you. I've always "dressed up" in work situations, for example, because people respond more positively to me when I look sharp.

I think it witheringly stupid that people would assess my competence based on something so tangential, but if they are going to have a prejudice, why shouldn't I make it a prejudice in my favor (by dressing well instead of whatever I want to wear)?

Short men should be wearing hidden heel shoes, too. Those inches are worth a lot more money than the shoes are. Etc.

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