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Giving chocolate improves faculty ratings.(NEWSWATCH)
Everybody knows that faculty can easily influence students filling out evaluation forms on them, and now a study has confirmed it.
In an experiment with 100 students in three different lecture sections taught by the same professor, half the students got chocolate on the day of the mid-semester evaluation and half did not. The students were told the candy was left over from a prior event, and a third party handed it out.
In all three lectures, students receiving chocolate gave the professor significantly higher ratings.
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