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Gapers Block published from April 22, 2003 to Jan. 1, 2016. The site will remain up in archive form. Please visit Third Coast Review, a new site by several GB alumni.
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Northwestern Professor Ben Schmidt analyzed the gendered language in professor reviews on RateMyProfessor.com, and found, among other things, that female professors were less likely to be called funny than male professors, while more likely to be called caring or unprofessional. Men were more likely to be called arrogant and genius. [via]

 
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