Comments on: Percentage of English Speaking Professor

By: pdub

pdub — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:45:37 +0000

does anyone know of any credible articles about this prob that i can cite in a speech im trying to write on this subject?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:01:36 +0000

Doesn’t work because languages are discrete data

By: erica

erica — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:06:43 +0000

i am a computer engineering major, and i approve this message.

By: sleeby

sleeby — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:36:07 +0000

Vat is going on?

By: sockpuppie

sockpuppie — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:59:50 +0000

I do too… nice to see I’m not the only one avoiding homework and looking at a graph telling me that my profs can’t speak English.

I did get an English speaking TA in Calc. one time, it makes a huge difference :\

And go GT!

By: msfan324

msfan324 — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:50:43 +0000

How is it useless? I earned a software engineering degree last year and its earing me the big bucks now.

By: yen

yen — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:27:58 +0000

This just means English-speaking people are bad at Engineering?

By: zoid

zoid — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:35:49 +0000

http://xkcd.com/435/

Math and science on a scale…

By: calvin0412

calvin0412 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:24:03 +0000

Computer Science, useless??

By: PeppaMama

PeppaMama — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:33:12 +0000

Y’all just don’t KNOW!!!!

By: tweece

tweece — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:39:34 +0000

uh. g’eh. fail.

By: tweece

tweece — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:37:07 +0000

percentage of english speaking graph creator

By: Dash

Dash — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:22:41 +0000

God this blows.
My chem teacher is chinese, and speaks broken english.
My TA for the lab is also chinese, except he can’t even pronounce people’s names in the classroom. I might as well be teaching myself.

By: CobraJoe

CobraJoe — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:29:40 +0000

Nope, just looking at it from the other end of the spectrum. (I’m from the top looking down…)

By: J

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:42:01 +0000

I’m a civil engineering student at Marshall and it doesn’t really apply here, but was the overwhelming thing to pull me away from Georgia Tech. GO HERD!

By: Woodylulz

Woodylulz — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:55:26 +0000

Engineering is maths and science applied.

Conceptual thinking FAIL.

By: John

John — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:27:58 +0000

I am Currently a mechanical engineering student at NYU-Poly and i approve of this graph.

By: Kit

Kit — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:57:01 +0000

Geez, I’d also like to add that all engineering related classes this percentage would be true. Calculus, Physics, and all my TA’s… I can say that I think they lapsed back into their first language somewhere in the lectures daily.

By: Maderman

Maderman — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:37:13 +0000

Unless the title is meant to be ironic…. But chances are Boomshadow’s got it right.

By: CobraJoe

CobraJoe — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:31:53 +0000

Are they truly speaking english when you understand less than half of what they say?

And it doesn’t say zero percent, it just approaches zero

By: CobraJoe

CobraJoe — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:28:51 +0000

Eh, not always true. We had one from Romania, I believe, and she was worse than most when it came to understanding what she was saying. Also, we had a b*tchy lady from Egypt (assumed), and a TA from some slavic country (she was the worst to understand)

By: CobraJoe

CobraJoe — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:23:39 +0000

Oh, Science and math are just subdivisions of engineering anyways…

By: lol

lol — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:43:40 +0000

Strange thing is you have terrible grammar, I think you are actually the chinese person! Nice try but there is no fooling me!

By: Jimbo Slice

Jimbo Slice — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:22:37 +0000

The graph says nothing about English being their second language. It just says that the percentage of professors in engineering that speak English is zero percent. Learn to read a graph.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:37:52 +0000

6 out of 5. This is why I left ASU.

By: lol

lol — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:08:35 +0000

Easy Jimbo, I hope you are trolling because this is the truest graph I have ever seen, I am an electrical engineering major and have not had an engineering professor who speaks english as their first language. They are all originally from india or asian countries. Computer science and engineering are ruled by indian people. This is in Minnesota land of no diversity anyway so if its true in a state where the majority of people are white, by far. It is true everywhere in the country.

By: Kyle Lowe

Kyle Lowe — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:40:45 +0000

This is a big part of the reason why I’m an MCJ student now instead of an EE student…

By: Machtyn

Machtyn — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:28:56 +0000

Strangely, my wife had a chinese for an english teacher. She didn’t understand a thing.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:47:52 +0000

I have to disagrees, my English teacher is Indian.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:56:06 +0000

this should’ve included computer science, the teachers are all indian and barely speak english

By: Kyler

Kyler — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:55:43 +0000

It’s just as true at FSU. GO NOLES!

By: Hrududu

Hrududu — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:22:36 +0000

The odds improve if you can get a lady professor. (We’re already being racist here, may as well add some good-natured sexism.)

By: Inara

Inara — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:02:54 +0000

This is exactly why I had to change majors.

By: Thiefree

Thiefree — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:24:03 +0000

Unless there’s a Spanish / engineering degree, it should really be a bar graph…

By: Gasweasel

Gasweasel — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:16:36 +0000

Me too! Useless degree brother!!

By: Jess

Jess — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:02:15 +0000

I’ve never seen a truer graph in my life.

By: Petrograd

Petrograd — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:40:57 +0000

Not really, just to Americans.

By: Jimbo Slice

Jimbo Slice — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:19:00 +0000

I’m sure my Vietnam Veteran statics professor would find this graph freaking hilarious…NOT! This is insulting to anyone in engineering.

By: NorthAveBoy

NorthAveBoy — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:10:29 +0000

I smell some Georgia Tech students…..

GO JACKETS!

By: zoid

zoid — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:25:30 +0000

You can’t forget science either!

By: Ink Dragon

Ink Dragon — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:25:21 +0000

Needs IT professors, they also seem to be mostly non-english speaking

By: someguy

someguy — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:01:02 +0000

Part that concerns me: There are 5% English profs out there who do not speak English.

By: cindymay04

cindymay04 — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:08:52 +0000

Very true, but missing mathematics! At my college I never met a single Math professor that spoke English as their first language or even all that well.

By: sgk

sgk — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:08:36 +0000

OMFG so true. My calc teacher barely speaks english.

By: Blackpanther

Blackpanther — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:06:01 +0000

Being an engineering student i’d say this graph is accurate. Note that the English teacher at my college speaks about as much English as the other teachers. It’s why i took up Spanish.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:01:26 +0000

Former ELEN student. In one year, I had a Calc teacher who was… well, I’m not entirely sure, but he got his MS in Israel and had the accent to go with it. Add to that a Danish CS prof and an Indian physics prof with a Russian TA, and I spent more time trying to make out what was just said than I did actually learning.

By: guillermo_04

guillermo_04 — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:37:27 +0000

MY graph actually goes the other way, I have a turkish professor giving me intermediate English (philosphy).

By: Mike Boomshadow

Mike Boomshadow — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:29:41 +0000

The last word in the label should be “Professors.”

Perhaps the percentage of English-speaking GraphJam participants is not 100–and that’s okay. Just sayin’.

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:10:52 +0000

Oh, so true.
The first day, all the kids complained about my calc prof and how little we could understand him.
the next day, the TA was worse.

By: Koki Kariya

Koki Kariya — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:40:09 +0000

My (currently unused) BS in CS I got last year can definitely attest to this.