Men Are Sarcastic, Women Are Hot: Gender and Language in Rate My Professors

I may have wasted a perfectly good hour engaging with an interactive study that, by its author’s own admission, has no place on his CV. And perhaps my cynical enjoyment of the results I produced has to do with confirmation bias; for all I know the basic design of the study was similarly affected. Still, sometimes it’s fun to play around with statistical results, and who knows? What you discover may have some validity.

I’m referring to Ben Schmidt’s interactive study of gender markers in reviews ...