I found someone who had described exactly the problem I was having but of course there wasn't an answer.
The problem: My LaTeX \listoftables was producing a List of Tables with extra lines between tables in different sections. So it'd be single spaced between tables in section 2, then there'd be this huge gap before a table in section 3 occured in the list. This... mostly just looked weird in the very small number of tables I have, so I thought it best to remove it.
The solution was this:
Replace \listoftables with the following...
\begingroup
\renewcommand\addvspace[1]{}
\setlength\parskip{.2em}
\listoftables
\endgroup
[found here]
Just in case someone else comes up with the same problem. If you want everything to be consistently spaced but larger, you just need to change that parskip to be more than .2em.
The problem: My LaTeX \listoftables was producing a List of Tables with extra lines between tables in different sections. So it'd be single spaced between tables in section 2, then there'd be this huge gap before a table in section 3 occured in the list. This... mostly just looked weird in the very small number of tables I have, so I thought it best to remove it.
The solution was this:
Replace \listoftables with the following...
\begingroup
\renewcommand\addvspace[1]{}
\setlength\parskip{.2em}
\listoftables
\endgroup
[found here]
Just in case someone else comes up with the same problem. If you want everything to be consistently spaced but larger, you just need to change that parskip to be more than .2em.