The relentless flow of articles Democrats keep trotting out ad nauseum ad infinitum to impugn Republicans, incessantly demean the right wing-way of life, mentality, to portray themselves as paragons of virtue, the very flower of humanity, is a vicious canard, a demagogic cudgel in which Democrats utilize to vilify, demonize Republicans, anoint sainthood upon themselves, the result of feelings of acute inferiority, mania, the stench as political anachronism hanging heavily over their collective mad-cow-disease- ravaged brains.
To paraphrase Lenin; Do enough fallacious, mendacious studies, articles and they become true.
How else to explain the effluent rhetoric espoused by the left?
I'd advise the Democrats to stop braying about how they are the master race, relegate the Democratic party to the dustbin of history, join the Republicans in making the US, the world a better place to live.
Democratic professors appear to be "more egalitarian" than their Republican counterparts when it comes to grading, meaning that more of the Democratic grades are in the middle. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to award very high grades and very low grades.
Another key difference is that black students tend to fare better with Democrats than with Republicans.
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Inside Higher Ed
Red Grader, Blue Grader
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/05/20/study_finds_differences_in_republican_and_democratic_grading_patterns
Republican professors and Democratic professors presumably produce different outcomes when they enter the ballot box, but what about when they record grades?
A forthcoming study finds that there may be notable differences. Democratic professors appear to be "more egalitarian" than their Republican counterparts when it comes to grading, meaning that more of the Democratic grades are in the middle. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to award very high grades and very low grades.
Another key difference is that black students tend to fare better with Democrats than with Republicans.
While the study documents those differences, the work will not satisfy political partisans hoping to demonstrate that Republicans are trying to encourage Darwinian competition with grading or that Democrats are Lake Wobegon graders afraid to suggest anyone did poorly. That's because the study makes clear that the researchers lacked the information to determine whether the Democratic or Republican grades were better reflections of student performance. The only thing the researchers could vouch for was the politically linked pattern in grading.
The study -- forthcoming in Applied Economics -- is by Talia Bar, an assistant professor at Cornell University, and Asaf Zussman, assistant professor of economics at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. They examined thousands of grades in a dataset covering the grades awarded at an unnamed elite American university between 2000 and 2004. Party registrations were used to identify professors' political inclinations, and the faculty at this university leaned Democratic, especially among humanities professors. Using SAT scores as a proxy for the preparedness of students, the researchers were able to rule out patterns in which Republican or Democratic professors had better students.
On grade distribution, Republicans were more likely to give very high and very low grades. Among grades given by Republicans, 6.2 percent were C- or lower, compared to only 4.0 percent of the Democratic grades. But Republicans were also more likely to give out A+ grades (8 percent of their grades, compared to only 3.5 percent from Democrats).
With regard to race of students, the study found that black students received lower grades, on average, than did white students whether classes were taught by Democrats or Republicans. In courses with Democratic professors, the gap was 0.27 on a grade point average. In Republican-led classrooms, the gap was 0.42.
While the authors don't endorse the grading style of either Democrats or Republicans, they conclude their paper by arguing that people (such as those concerned about grade distribution) seeking to influence grading policies should pay more attention to the political factor. "Our results suggest that the allocation of grades is associated with the world view or ideology of professors," the authors write.
“”an unnamed elite American university””
lol
Both of them?
What, both of them?
Black students that fail,... fail because they are STUPID! Not because they black or the Professor is a Conservative. Sheesh!
I seriously doubt most of those professors even grade their own papers. Plus, who believes that they could find enough Rep professors to get a statistically significant sample?
Mustn't upset the little drones' sense of worth and self esteem.......
So, reading between the lines here, no consideration was given for the field of study or the area of expertise of the professor.
That's what the study actually says. Now that we've got that basic fact out of the way, we can then move on to the propaganda nit being picked, here.
That nit-picking involves a wider distribution of grades, with those from Republican professors being both higher and lower than those from Democrat professors.
Now, what can one surmise from this? Would it be that Republican professors are actually giving the grades earned, while Democrat professors are practicing what they preach and redistributing grades, thereby subsidizing the lower end of the curve at the expense of the higher end of the curve?
Yes, that's precisely what's happening. But, no headlines shouting "Democrat Professors Are Penalizing the Best Students And Rewarding the Worst Students!"
Oh no, that would be inflammatory in a manner that is not progressive. So, we get the orthodox progressive inflammatory headline instead. "Republican Professors Are Racist."
The fallacy behind this study is the phrase “give grades.”
Of course, only LIEberal professors “give grades.”
Real professors do not “give grades;” their students earn their grade.
Of course, by using the phrase “give grades,” the authors of the study project LIEberal practices to all professors.
This whole charade is another LIEberal attempt to smear Conservatives.
A dumbass waste of time and taxpayer money, IMHO!
I strongly suspect my university instructors’ teaching assistants didn’t know the race of the student whose paper they were grading.
Progressives....people that love a lie!
All 12 of the conservative professors in the country?
How about this? Republican professors grade like this ("All the students who fail, fail!").
Of course, if any Black student fails the Republican professors are racists......
Liberals are lying propagandists, Study Clearly Reveals.
In my experience, what few Republican Professors there are tend to reside in the professional schools (e.g., the School of Business or Medicine).
It would not be surprising that there would be lower grades in those types of courses than there would be in some of the Liberal Arts courses for example where a "C" is about as low as the grades go.
Actually - the truth is something more like this:
Liberal professors (the VAST majority of those in colleges and universities across this nation) grade like this: if I agree with your politics or I see you as a “victim” of society and “the system”, then you get a passing grade - maybe even better.
Conservative professors (very rare): I will give you the grade you deserve without consideration to race or background. Getting ahead is the result of hard work, not racial preferences or excuses.