Review: Professor Plausible’s Extra-Large Book of Baloney: Sixteen Week, Full Semester Edition

Professor Plausible's Extra-Large Book of Baloney: Sixteen Week, Full Semester Edition by Frankie Bow My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a useful blank lined notebook. It is divided into sixteen chapters, suitable for a standard semester. It is also a valuable information literacy teaching tool (lesson: trust no one). View all my reviews

Huh.

1) In a randomized double-blind study (n = 127), science faculty from research-intensive universities rated the application materials of a student—who was randomly assigned either a male or female name—for a laboratory manager position. Faculty participants rated the male applicant as significantly more competent and hireable than the (identical) female applicant. These participants also selected …

Tom Friedman’s Career, as Predicted by C.S. Lewis

John Warner's new column in Inside Higher Ed got me wondering about the enduring appeal of certain high-profile columnists. And then I remembered The Screwtape Letters. In C.S. Lewis's classic Christian satire, senior demon Screwtape advises his nephew Wormwood, a newbie tempter, on how to get his "patient" to look away from the truth: Don’t waste time trying to make him think …