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Scott Jaschik writes at Inside Higher Education that although most faculty members would deny that physical appearance is a legitimate criterion in grading, a study finds that among similarly qualified female students, those who are physically attractive earn better grades than less attractive female students. For male students, there is no significant relationship between attractiveness and grades. The results hold true whether the faculty member is a man or a woman.
The researchers obtained student identification photographs for students at Metropolitan State University of Denver and had the attractiveness rated, on a scale of 1-10, of all the students. Then they examined 168,092 course grades awarded to the students, using factors such as ACT scores to control for student academic ability. For female students, an increase of one standard deviation in attractiveness was associated with a 0.024 increase in grade (on a 4.0 scale).
The results mirror a similar study that found that those who are attractive in high school are more likely to go on to earn a four-year college degree. Hernández-Julián says that he found the results of the Metro State study “troubling” and says that there are two possible explanations: “Is it that professors invest more time and energy into the better-looking students, helping them learn more and earn the higher grades? Or do professors simply reward the appearance with higher grades given identical performance? The likely answer, given our growing understanding of the prevalence of implicit biases, is that professors make small adjustments on both of these margins."
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday January 07 2016, @04:07PM
Can't believe that went over your head like that. A guy can have less than an inch long penis, and still BE a big dick. In fact, I suspect that some guys become dicks as a method of compensation.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Thursday January 07 2016, @04:13PM
If that 1" penis goes over his head he's got a hell of a urinary sphincter.
/ for a good time google "penis muscles shoot semen"
// the internet, is there anything it can't do?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 07 2016, @04:20PM
A big dick, maybe, but not a big SWINGING dick.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 07 2016, @04:57PM
A guy can have less than an inch long penis, and still BE a big dick. In fact, I suspect that some guys become dicks as a method of compensation.
So that explains your personality. Thanks for the clarification.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday January 07 2016, @09:43PM
In fact, I suspect that some guys become dicks as a method of compensation.
See, there's three kinds of people: dicks, pussies, and assholes. Pussies think everyone can get along, and dicks just want to fuck all the time without thinking it through. But then you got your assholes, Chuck. And all the assholes want us to shit all over everything! So, pussies may get mad at dicks once in a while, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes, Chuck. And if they didn't fuck the assholes, you know what you'd get? You'd get your dick and your pussy all covered in shit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cV_q-mVAAA [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday January 07 2016, @09:46PM
A guy can have less than an inch long penis
Citation needed.
Actually, no, no citation, please.
Is that really possible? Are american inches a different size to the standard 25.4mm?