Now if I had to pick, I would overcome my sucker-proneness and take the butcher any minute. Even more: I would seek the butcher as a third option if my choice was between two doctors who looked like doctors. Why? Simply the one who doesn’t look the part, conditional on having made a (sort of) successful career in his profession, had to have much to overcome in terms of perception. And if we are lucky enough to have people who do not look the part, it is thanks to the presence of some skin in the game, the contact with reality that filters out incompetence, as reality is blind to looks.
It is intelligent to reinforce your qualification by mastering the appearance associated with the role. People too lazy to look like a safe bet often are not a safe bet. Surgeons should look like surgeons because their job is to get people to allow them to perform surgeries.
