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.
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
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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
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.
ReplyDeleteMay I still make cookies for Amelia?
ReplyDeleteAmelia the untenured doesn't post her own responses, but does sincerely appreciate the offer of cookies.
DeleteBrilliant! Depressing as hell, but still brilliant.
ReplyDelete"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.
Delete"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.
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?
DeleteI 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.
Oh, and long winded is cool! That's one I get.
DeleteOh, 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?
DeleteOver the last several hours, while battling writer's block in my assigned duties, I popped these terms into the search box:
ReplyDeletetough
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
You missed "tweed" from that, OPH....
Delete(hint: males win!)
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.
DeleteYou'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.
DeleteSomething 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.
ReplyDeleteThat's a pretty stout limb you've got under you, Ben.
DeleteAlso, 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.
More words to try, because why not?
Deletebork
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
Well, both "cookie" and "fart" produced a difference in the direction I'd been suspecting...
Delete...and, interesting that only Fine Arts students ever use "milquetoast" in their lexicon of descriptors...
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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