Monday, February 9, 2015

Thoughts for the ladeez from Amelia. With a Bonus Update From Prof. Poopiehead.

So this handy interactive graphic analyzing the flakies' responses on the site that shall not be named is kind of depressing. Try words like brilliant, genius and unfair and see where boy and girl proffies come out.

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The Gendered Reviews link provided earlier is providing me with some midday entertainment, as I input a miscellany of terms while eating lunch between classes.

For example, "douchebag" suggests that Computer Science particularly suffers from profs with this attribute (or, a student body that is more willing to use such an insult in their vocabulary - confounding influence!), and I have no idea what is going on with Criminal Justice professors...

Prof Poopiehead

17 comments:

  1. Oh my. Gender splits on "no idea" and "clueless" in Engineering and computer science, "crazy" and "airhead" in Fine Arts. Much as I hate the site that shall not be named, this is a great way to waste time.

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  2. May I still make cookies for Amelia?

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    1. Amelia the untenured doesn't post her own responses, but does sincerely appreciate the offer of cookies.

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  3. Brilliant! Depressing as hell, but still brilliant.

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    1. "mean," "tough," "demanding," and "unclear" all yield interesting (though quite different) patterns. I'm especially intrigued by the disciplines in which the dots sometimes overlap, or nearly so (most often economics and engineering, for the series of experiments I tried; "hard" also yields a lot of overlaps or near overlaps, especially in science & engineering). There are some interesting splits, and inversions of the usual pattern on "unreasonable"; "unfair" seems more predictable.

      "Strict" is illuminating, too. Apparently both male and female English proffies are very strict, but females considerably more so.

      Education proffies, on the other hand, are very flexible (English proffies too, but considerably less so).

      Ah! Here's one where the males pretty consistently outrank the females (except in history): creepy.

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    2. What a brilliant toy, but boy, there are really some hot button words that female proffies get a lot more often. Ugly world we live in still, amirite?

      I enjoyed seeing the Music, Humanities, Fine Arts, and others pop up to the top with words like "self-esteem"

      But truly any word yields fascinating results. Circle is my current fave.

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    3. Oh, and long winded is cool! That's one I get.

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    4. Oh, I'm a man. I don't know why I told you. Does everyone think I am? Fab had feminine energy; maybe that's what I'm thinking of. Can you tell I'm bored of my sabbatical?

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  4. Over the last several hours, while battling writer's block in my assigned duties, I popped these terms into the search box:

    tough
    fair
    hair
    hot
    ugly
    cookies
    pizza
    qualified
    unqualified
    mean
    sleep, asleep
    brother, bro
    sister, sistah
    erudite
    derp
    proficient
    professional
    unprofessional
    rigourous, rigorous
    flatulence, fart
    belch, burp
    jerk
    perv
    hat
    psoriasis
    scurvy
    sick
    dumb
    shrill
    opinionated
    stupid
    smart
    genius
    knowledgable
    knowledgeable
    pass
    fail
    flunk
    cheat
    bang
    nail
    nuts
    crazy
    mental
    monumental
    dick
    kill
    funny
    distributor
    driveshaft
    engine
    transmission
    bed
    couch
    unclear
    nuclear
    steely
    blog
    yell
    choke
    perpetual
    dim
    bright
    dreamy
    squeeze
    sneeze
    cough
    cry
    laugh
    poker
    strident
    farm
    bigot
    crank
    essay
    extra
    easy
    hard
    shirt
    skirt
    toupee
    wig
    tory
    grant
    kari
    hari
    hairy
    dinosaur
    retire
    silverback
    plagiarist
    plagiarism
    smug
    ego
    bastard
    marxist
    prick
    friend
    bff
    snort
    spew
    vomit
    puke
    explosive
    ulcer
    blackboard
    moodle
    syllabus
    read
    write
    stare
    drama
    braniac
    innovative
    stale
    premise
    dichotomy
    hobson
    bulverism
    fallacy
    vapid
    vague

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    1. You missed "tweed" from that, OPH....
      (hint: males win!)

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    2. Damn you, Ogre. I'd only tried about 10 words... now, in order to satisfy my curiousity, I'm going to have to try most of these out! Especially, but in no particular order of preference or importance: cookie, fart, hat, nuclear, choke, ulcer, and hobson.

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    3. You're right, I missed "tweed", but in my defense, I did have "jacket" in my original first ten. I had popped quite a few terms into the analyzer before it occurred to me to keep track, after which I tried to recreate my initial steps, albeit imperfectly.

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  5. Something to consider: The word "she" gets hundreds of hits for male professors. Even thousands of results for "he" among female professors. I'll go out on a limb and say that these kids don't know what they are talking about.

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    1. That's a pretty stout limb you've got under you, Ben.

      Also, I suspect that the scalpel is rather blunt. For instance, regarding a word like "she", all we know is that contributors to the site used the word "she" in reviews of male professors. We don't know the context, or whether the word was even used directly to reference the proffie or perhaps a fellow student.

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    2. More words to try, because why not?

      bork
      bjork
      spork
      muppet
      animal
      bogus
      joke
      smoke
      bloke
      bird
      diagnosis
      differential
      injection
      throttle
      friction
      entitled
      tenure
      magpie
      payback
      retribution
      twitter
      dean
      provost
      ethics
      ethical
      fortran
      commodore
      streptococcus
      drooler


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    3. Well, both "cookie" and "fart" produced a difference in the direction I'd been suspecting...
      ...and, interesting that only Fine Arts students ever use "milquetoast" in their lexicon of descriptors...

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    4. The gender differences are interesting but I really want to know how students in different classes insult their professors. Since most students in fine arts and chemistry are there because the classes are gen ed requirements, the sample of students would be roughly the same. Yet, they insult their professor differently. Why is that?

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