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...good scores in the CUE, it might help to be cute. As the Committee on Undergraduate Education closes its online professor evaluation survey today, a new study suggests that physically attractive professors perform better in web-based assessments. The study, “Web-Based Student Evaluations of Professors: the Relations between Perceived Quality, Easiness and Sexiness,” was conducted by three professors at Central Michigan University. One of them, Professor of Finance James Felton, said that he had looked at the ratings and comments on the website RateMyProfessors.com and decided it might be interesting to explore...
...opposition to copy New Labour's popular centrist policies. After years in the wilderness, the rival Tories have rallied behind Cameron, 39, who is stressing ecology, international development and the promotion of women and ethnic minorities instead of old Tory standards like immigrant bashing and tax cutting. A recent survey shows the Tories would beat Labour if a general election were held now, 37% to 31%. "Blair's legacy is also Cameron's Conservatives," says Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Labour-affiliated Fabian Society. "The Tories' shift is really New Labour's moment of victory...
...credit-card debt of Americans ages 18 to 24 doubled, to nearly $3,000. Among high school seniors, 4 out of 5 have never taken a personal-finance class, but nearly half have an ATM debit card, and more than a quarter have bounced a check, according to a survey of 5,775 teens, released in April by the nonprofit JumpStart Coalition for Financial Literacy. If those trends continue, declaring bankruptcy could become as common as earning a bachelor's degree...
That is particularly alarming since the number of students diagnosed as mentally fragile appears to be rising. The 2005 National Survey of Counseling Directors, conducted by the University of Pittsburgh, found that 95% of directors reported an increase in the number of freshmen who arrive on campus already taking psychiatric medicines. "A lot of students who may not have gone to college five years ago are able to attend today because their illness has been recognized earlier and they are on medication," says Joanna Locke, a program officer at the Jed Foundation, a New York City--based college suicide-prevention...
...statistical methodology here is primitive at best - where's that Freakonomics guy when you need him? - but there are more serious, fundamental problems with the Times' project. Probably no one at the Times would seriously claim that this survey determines some kind of mysterious "objective" literary value; it's a way (I imagine this hypothetical person saying) to start conversations (mission accomplished) and introduce people to books they might not have heard of (mission not-so-much accomplished...