In this article, Lucy Ferriss of Lingua Franca revisits Ben Schmidt’s searchable website for terms used on Rate My Professors, acknowledging both its limitations and its strange allure. Here’s an excerpt:

“If I came from another planet and had only this study and its attendant raw data to depend on, I would conclude that female professors are hotter, meaner, tougher, stricter, sweeter, less fair, less funny, stupider, uglier, and more idiotic than their male counterparts. Male professors, I would figure, are more likely to be exciting, sarcastic geniuses who teach great classes and give easy grades.”