{"id":338,"date":"2010-08-24T08:40:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T13:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/08\/24\/100824_tattooedteachers\/"},"modified":"2022-03-18T11:24:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T16:24:39","slug":"100824_tattooedteachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/08\/24\/100824_tattooedteachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tattooed Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Semi-interesting post over at <a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/20\/the-value-of-a-tattoo-in-higher-education\/\">the Freakonomics blog<\/a> about the possibility that college professors who have tattoos could be more successful than their non-ink-stained counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty skeptical about the relevance of the study cited in the post, as are most of the commenters. If nothing else, showing male undergrads photos of tattooed female models* is, frankly, a really dumb idea if you&#8217;re trying to assess anything other than libido. But, perhaps I&#8217;m not giving the students enough credit.<\/p>\n<p>I was almost able to type that last sentence with a straight face.<\/p>\n<p><i>*I readily admit that tattooed models are not equally attractive. For example, compare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inkedmag.com\/tattooed-guys\/30-beautiful-tattooed-women-we-loved-in-2018\">this<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/designpress.com\/tattoos\/ugly-tattoos\/\">this<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semi-interesting post over at the Freakonomics blog about the possibility that college professors who have tattoos could be more successful than their non-ink-stained counterparts. I&#8217;m pretty skeptical about the relevance of the study cited in the post, as are most of the commenters. If nothing else, showing male undergrads photos of tattooed female models* is,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/08\/24\/100824_tattooedteachers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tattooed Teachers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-plain-silly","category-society-culture","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9035,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/9035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}