![]() ![]() That’s because study after study suggests that student evaluations of teaching in general are biased against women. ![]() While many male academics have condemned the Rate My Professors hotness rating as demeaning and irrelevant to their work (they too are eligible for the rating), it’s been particularly loathed by women. The campaign comes on the heels of a movement for female academics to include “Dr.” in their social media biographies and, of course, the larger Me Too moment. Written evals were worse, maybe 90% comments on my body and clothes Yeah I looked up my ratings once and it broke my heart. ![]() Thousands of other professors and students joined in, with some pushing for a boycott of the site until it ditched its Scoville scale for academics’ looks. Please remove it because #TimesUP and you need to do better." Your 'chili pepper' rating of our 'hotness' is obnoxious and utterly irrelevant to our teaching. Nevertheless, the chili pepper persisted - until last week, when BethAnn McLaughlin, an assistant professor of neurology at Vanderbilt University, tweeted at Rate My Professors, saying, "Life is hard enough for female professors. A 2017 analysis of millions of online ratings of professors found, for example, that scores varied with instructor gender, discipline and perceived “easiness,” and that professors rated as attractive had higher overall teaching scores. Professors have long argued that Rate My Professors is less than scientific, pointing to the hotness rating as exhibit A. confirmed last week that it is doing away with its most controversial teaching “quality” metric - “hotness,” as indicted by chili pepper icons - following a social media campaign against it.
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