This episode focuses on how having a STEM professor with a fixed mindset could affect how they teach and what they communicate to their students.  Believing and perpetuating a culture of genius may facilitate focusing on math to weed students out, rather than developing ways to excite students about STEM so that they will be motivated to work through the tough parts of the discipline.  Also, fixed mindset professors may be more likely to encourage students to drop a class rather than encourage them to work hard and use tutoring services to help improve their grade.