#GoodRead | Is the Professor Bossy or Brilliant? Much Depends on Gender

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"Is the Professor Bossy or Brilliant? Much Depends on Gender":

Male professors are brilliant, awesome and knowledgeable. Women are bossy and annoying, and beautiful or ugly.

These are a few of the results from a new interactive chart that was gaining notice on social media Friday. Benjamin Schmidt, a Northeastern University history professor, says he built the chart using data from 14 million student reviews on the Rate My Professors site. It allows you to search for any word to see how often it appeared in reviews and how it broke down by gender and department.

Read Claire Cain Miller's full article at NYTimes.com here…